Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about seeing faces on campus that are the same color as mine. Although only one of my closest friends is Asian American, I took comfort in seeing many Asian faces every day at Harvard. Now that I am at a law school where the Asian American population is significantly smaller, I feel less comfortable, even though I have never enveloped myself in an Asian American community...
...bragged that his original plan had been to plant enough explosives in one of the 110-story twin buildings to topple it, killing maybe 250,000 people in the tower and on the ground. But his shoestring operation couldn't afford enough dynamite, and settled for a much smaller blast...
Kirsch is bucking a bigger trend. In this era of plenty, Americans haven't spread the wealth too far: the percentage of households making charitable contributions has remained unchanged since 1987, and those who do give actually donate a smaller slice of their income (1.6%) than Americans did 30 years ago (2.1%). In dollar terms, though, last year individuals gave a record $109 billion to charity, up $20 billion over...
...matter how much experience you get in the game of basketball, if you come from the state of Vermont or a smaller, kind of rural, state, you're not going to have the Division I experience until you actually play Division I," she adds...
...three months at Harvard. First-years hear a message that communities are desirable, supportive and a necessary part of the school. For example, the intramural sports program tells us that "the emphasis is upon participation by all and building a camaraderie among the Class of 2002.." On a smaller scale, it's expected in letter and in spirit that we'll make activities with our entryway a focal point of our social lives...