Word: roles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complete, has invited almost as many doomsday predictions as the coming turn of the millennium. While the optimists claim that Radcliffe's conversion into an institute for advanced study will allow the former college to expand its presence within the University community, the naysayers believe that Radcliffe--and its role as a strong advocate for women on campus--will fade quietly into the woodwork...
...hypocritical and distasteful when pundits find themselves compelled to valorize an athlete's preferring his personal beliefs or needs to his team's. There's more to life than knockouts or home runs, they remind us. Yet the impulse to conflate sports with life--in the quest for role models in athletics, in the prurience with which the media exposes the private lives of sports figures--is the lifeblood construct of sports journalism...
...recall seeing him there and were shocked to see that he alone was omitted from your article. Political campaigns depend on the press for publicity, and the Crimson performed a great disservice to Dreyfus by failing to report on his position, or even to acknowledge his candidacy. The role of a news article is to report the facts to the students and let them draw their own conclusions--not to pass judgment on the merits of certain candidates and include or exclude information accordingly...
After Julius Erving retired and Moses Malone was traded, the young Barkley was forced to accept both a leadership role and the fact that he was the only star on the team. He always made the All-Star team, but his Sixers teams never went far in the playoffs. In 1992 Barkley took his game and by then infamous outspoken comments to Phoenix...
...what it calls itself and what it actually does. Many current council members do a good job trying to make the campus a better place. But it's a joke to say they "govern." Scrap these farcical elections and pretensions of democracy, and the council will have a clearer role on campus and the flexibility to accomplish more...