Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said she was impressed by little things the co-masters have done to improve House life, like buying up a large section of seats at the Evening of Champions event in order to take House resident tutors on a special night...
Rock knows about hard work and hard times. He was born in Georgetown, S.C., and grew up in a poor part of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. His dad (who died in 1988) worked as a truck driver for the New York Daily News; his mom was a schoolteacher (she now runs a day-care center). Rock was bused from his black neighborhood in Bed-Stuy to a white high school in Bensonhurst. He says the students there were "worse than white trash--they were white toxic waste," and would beat him up regularly. Funny thing was, even though...
...containing pictures of Rock's family and copies of books like Dorothy West's The Wedding, into the kitchen, where Rock, dressed in a Phat Farm T shirt, sweat pants and white gym socks, is watching the world track-and-field championships on TV and flipping through the sports section of the Daily News. Some of Rock's friends suggest that the couple have experienced domestic difficulties of late, but right now they look comfortable together; relaxed, laid back. Still, there's a little work mixed in with this lazy Sunday afternoon--Rock's searching for material in the paper...
...disturbed person. His medical records show that he believed he was directed by God to save drug addicts and exotic dancers, that his friends were prophets and that he was the messiah. When the police were called in last week, he was menacing children in a predominantly Hasidic Jewish section of Brooklyn, and he attacked the cops with a claw hammer. The police shot him to death with 12 bullets. Should they have just maimed Busch to subdue him? New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said, "When [police] make a decision to shoot, they shoot to kill...
Impressive as the discoveries have been, they are just the beginning. Hawass estimates that the cemetery covers several square miles and may contain up to 10,000 mummies. The section now being excavated, he believes, belonged to the middle class; eventually, tombs of wealthier people may turn up. And once this huge and pristine site is fully explored, Hawass and his colleagues expect to have an unprecedented window into Egyptian life in a provincial town under Roman rule...