Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Faculty Council offered a similar option. However, in its version, students would need to take four language courses, or two years, to satisfy the Foreign Cultures requirement. This suggestion unfortunately fails criterion No. 3. But the spirit of the recommendation is sound: foreign cultures are best approached through the languages their members speak...
...schlock. It's also mean-spirited and cynical," sniffs academic dean Wayne Morris. "Art attempts to address the human condition," says visiting faculty member Moe Brooker, "and you don't trivialize the human spirit." Nor do you feature "a sideshow" in the window, says student Pam Feldman, when you are collecting $15,500 in tuition from someone who invests "all my time and energy to become a better painter...
Soon Wei was showing just a touch of the spirit of defiance that got him into such trouble back in China. He was caught smoking against doctors' orders and later demanded a speedy release from the hospital. By the time he flew to New York City late in the week for his first public appearance, he was the same outspoken champion of freedom who won admiration around the world for daring to stand up to China's communist leadership. At a press conference held in the New York Public Library, Wei said, "Those who enjoy democracy, liberty and human rights...
...holidays ? a season of family, friends and forgiveness. That time of year when you chew cold turkey and reflect on what we have in common rather than what divides. And it is in this spirit of reconciliation that TIME Daily would like to say sorry to Newsweek for making fun of its digitally-altered Bobbi McCaughey cover. OJ knows, TIME isn?t above a bit of photo-tampering itself. Heck, practically anyone who?s ever owned Photoshop has given their relatives a gleaming new set of dentures at one time or another. Consider it forgotten, Newsweek. We won?t mention...
...Likely story #2: This past Saturday a UC Berkeley student, whipping up school spirit before the big Stanford-Cal game, pens a satirical column in his school paper urging readers to "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass" because the First Daughter "embodies the Stanford ethos of establishment worship that must be subverted and destroyed...