Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might think, given the way some people have talked lately about the lack of heroes, that it would be hard to find any who stand up to scrutiny. That's a misunderstanding too. What's true is that we don't have any more of those all-purpose heroes, the king or teacher or paragon who is right and true all the time. But we do have plenty of people with heroic passages in their life, who bravely shatter a limitation or convention and open up new possibilities in the life of others. As we at TIME selected our heroes...
...Hooker had already left a legacy for Harvard, in a 1626 sermon where he proclaimed, "Every tub must stand upon its own bottom...
...truly centralized administration isn't possible, not simply because the deans would never stand for it but because it is not part of the Harvard culture...
...Rudenstine's presence at Harvard appears weak, he is practically invisible on the national scene. His behind-the-scenes tactics have substituted for taking a public stand as affirmative action has been rolled back nationwide...
...such a long time ago, we liked Bill Clinton. For the last six years we have stood by his agenda. And it is because we still stand by that agenda--because we still care about things like poverty and child care, affirmative action and gay rights--that today we call for Bill Clinton to resign...