Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Changes in our sexual mores have not all been for the worse. The fact that we are more able to discuss sexually transmitted diseases and other aspects of human sexuality openly, for example, is beneficial even if the new spirit of openness is the result of some regrettable changes in sexual practices. In the good old days, we may have spoken more eliptically about the birds and the bees, but children were experimenting with sex less than they are now and divorce and teen-age pregnancy rates were similarly lower...
...activist" left. But Harvard's volunteers should not misinterpret the source of the attacks upon them. Only through the lens of Augustine's critique can we understand such behavior correctly: it is the seed of unseemly compassion, and Harvard should not tolerate it. Rather Harvard should embrace a spirit of true compassion, one that finds suffering reluctantly and honestly looks forward to the day when it will be no more...
...Technology in Education, which recommends appropriation of technology funds. Aaron is the youngest council member; he's also the only one who is chauffeured around the state by his mom to the council's quarterly meetings. The icing on his cake came last spring when he won a Prudential Spirit of Community award--$1,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington. "In class I'm the nerd," says Aaron. "But when I got this award, I realized that being the nerd wasn't all that bad." --Reported by Nancy Harbert/Las Cruces...
...journey that took Payanzo from living as a free spirit on a cross-country adventure to being a Harvard undergraduate raising a child is also a story about connecting two very distinct points...
...Party grandees are falling over themselves to denounce the treaty, and paint Gore ? who showed his spirit at Kyoto Sunday ? as an extremist. You can tell it's a campaign issue when Steve Forbes comes out of the woodwork: the once-and-future presidential wannabe called Kyoto "an unprecedented government seizure of American freedom and sovereignty." Jack Kemp, still smarting from the '96 Veep debate, described it as "dangerous...