Word: stark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stark contrast to the anti-ironic stance in our exalted extracurricular realm, our views towards academic and House life are anything but earnest or genuine. As student groups and outside commitments have become the definitive standard by which to judge one's Harvard experience, academic pursuits have become marginalized. Many of us are more concerned with the practical value of a Harvard diploma than with our own personal intellectual development...
...WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Gamma Rays is unique because it gives us five strong female roles, full of stark honesty and without sexual stereotypes. Though it is a bizarre story (see title), it is one that the audience can relate to: girl finds solace and escape from reality in her books and studies. Sound familiar to anyone...
...only way to be an anti-politician. Republican presidential frontrunner George W. Bush's style of being the anti-Clinton is to say "fuck" a lot in front of reporters. The idea, apparently, is to jar us all by how little he cares about his image, in stark contrast to the relentlessly image-conscious Clinton. Bush also wants us to know that, unlike the legendarily wonkish president, he isn't a nerd. Has the number of abortions fallen during his governorship? "I don't know, probably down," he told Tucker Carlson of Talk magazine over the summer. Let a lesser...
...campaign book is a saccharine literary form--think of Jimmy Carter's Why Not the Best?--but Buchanan's new foreign policy monograph is every bit as vinegary as its author. It's also a stark reminder of just how far on the fringe of the American political spectrum he is. In A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argues for an extreme isolationism that puts him at odds with everyone from Ronald Reagan conservatives to Edward Kennedy liberals. And along the way, he manages to deliver a flurry of jabs and body blows to his favorite punching bags: Jews, Hispanics...
...improvement in the standard of living of military families, wants to pay teachers according to merit and would institute a nationwide test of school vouchers. While there are a few unresolved monkeys on McCain?s back, including the pesky abortion issue, his generally clear-cut positions stand in stark relief to Bush?s campaign, which has so far steered clear of releasing any major policy proposals...