Word: soups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read for the blind, lead after school programs...the list goes on and on. I probably don't have to explain the value of community service and helping the underprivileged or needy, but many people, even Harvard students, aren't motivated enough to actually go and work in a soup kitchen or help build a playground...
...work for political candidates who are working for social change. Fine. I hope Bill Clinton wins too. Still, no politician's policies are going to help the poor and unfortunate now, or even in the near future. Working in the community, renovating low-income housing and serving in soup kitchens are all things that need to be done. Harvard can help us by giving us the time to work in those apartments and kitchens. And we can get credit...
...arms of the sort worn in America by Queen Latifah. The burgeoning dictionary of Franglais, moreover, includes not only le rap but a distinctively Gallic version of the standard salutation, "What's up?" Szup? is what American ears & hear, though in Paris it sounds more like an appetizer course: "Soup?" The genre has spawned one break-out hit, Auteuil Neuilly Passy, in which a trio called Les Inconnus (the Unknowns) ridicules the well-to-do who live in those three ritzy parts of Paris. MC Solaar, who was born in Chad, easily concedes that "Parisian rap is pretty much...
...Europe's growth will demand a lot of work. Eastern Europe's conversion from communist central planning to democratic market economies is one of the most difficult undertakings imaginable. As the Carnegie Endowment's National Commission referred to it in a report last July, "You can make fish soup out of an aquarium, but you can't make an aquarium out of fish soup...
...Building 11, the dingy former headquarters of Eastern Airlines at Miami International Airport, an alphabet soup of federal and state agencies went to work coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. EOC on Floor 2, FEMA on 3, JTF on 4. CAP, COE, DNR, DER, SBA, GSA, even the ubiquitous IRS. In the hallways, Army Rangers in combat camouflage crossed paths with Army engineers in red shirts, sleepy-eyed state emergency officials in rumpled clothes and even Marilyn Quayle in Bermuda shorts and a ponytail...