Word: rite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other major setback for the CCR came later in the spring, after what has come to be an annual rite--a sit-in Clark's office. Thirteen days after students occupied the Dean's office on April 10, Clark sent a stern letter to all students and faculty members warning that such "future disruptions" would lead to suspensions or even expulsions...
...fear that even raising the question trivializes the whole issue of rape. But there are paradoxes here that might shed light on the issue. How is it that when an adolescent boy is coerced into sleeping with an older woman, it is viewed with a wink as an accepted rite of passage, while the reverse -- the coercion of a girl by an older man -- is clearly...
...KQED wins its case and the scene of Harris' last breath is broadcast into the nation's living rooms, will people judge it to be a disturbing atrocity or a darkly satisfying rite? And how will they feel when the image replays not only on their screens but in their minds, as it undoubtedly will...
...book is unabashedly about herself. As she says, "St. Paul's is the setting. It's the place, not the main character." Her return to the school does not directly illuminate the nature of St. Paul's. Instead, Cary highlights her late acceptance of her painful, and previously unacknowledged, rite of passage...
...brink of conflict with neighboring Croatia on behalf of the ethnic Serbs living there. But last week, the most harrowing for Yugoslavia since the end of World War II, Serbia was fighting battles entirely within its own borders. In a scenario that seems to have become a rite of passage in the new Europe, the people of the republic were pitted against an autocratic regime, Serbia's communist government. The showdown came in the capital, Belgrade, where anticommunist demonstrations paralyzed the city center for three tense days and nights after a weekend of violence...