Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 300 laughing and dancing students are crowded in Wreston Quad, standing in tight clusters on the lawn outside the frat houses. The dance remix, "My Heart Will Go On," is blasting from a third-story frat window, and students are chugging beers and ignoring the nearby police, who seem content to munch on pizza and watch the party...
...most obvious measures will not be so easy to put in place. Many Americans already pay more in Social Security taxes than they do in income taxes. Further raising the retirement age (now slated to go to 67) as a way of acknowledging that people are living longer would seem to make sense. But an increasing number of Americans are retiring earlier, not later. In fact, 60% of today's Social Security beneficiaries are beginning to collect at 62, accepting reduced benefits to get more years off the job. Only 10% took that option...
...Hispanic students went down 7%. "We expected a significant increase in minority numbers, and that did not happen," concedes Al Kauffman, a senior lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft the law. A notable exception: at UT Austin the chief beneficiaries of the new law seem to be Asian students, whose admissions under the 10% Plan rose a whopping 16% in the past two years...
...sort of resurrection has occurred. Counterintuitive as it may seem in an age when technology has either trumped belief or become its new focus, a fascination with the shroud seems to have not only survived but also flourished. It can be tracked on the World Wide Web, from the official archdiocese site to the home page of the Turin fire brigade (which saved the relic during a fire last April). It can be discussed at the Centre International d'Etudes sur le Linceul de Turin in Paris, the Collegamento pro Sindone in Rome (sindon is the Latin word for shroud...
...more than a little alarmed, therefore, at the prospect of Harvard taking over complete responsibility for female undergraduates' well-being. I cannot imagine how a task force devoted to improving sexual assault resources, for example, will succeed under the sole authority of an administration that does not seem to believe that rape is a serious and pervasive problem on this campus. And I wonder how Harvard will manage to attract and retain the kind of women I am proud to share my undergraduate degree with. Many of the female friends I most admire have told me flatly that if they...