Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Throughout her career, Gordimer has been a paragon of authorly virtue: a white writer in apartheid South Africa, she stood staunchly with what she always calls the "liberation movement." Her fiction exposes the bleeding heart of South African society, and her eye is precise and unflinching. This is not to say that her fiction is nakedly ideological: rather, it speaks complex truths about human relationships and social realities. It shocks the reader with its honesty...
...Bush has been attributed to popular resentment for the status quo, the media is probably as responsible for the phenomenon as anybody. By June the races in both parties appeared to be over. Bush had scared off nearly every serious challenger with his immense war chest, which then stood at $35 million - more than the rest of the Republican presidential candidates combined, and by far the largest pre-election-year sum ever raised by a candidate. Gore, meanwhile, was keeping ahead of Bradley by using the many advantages of the vice presidency to raise more than twice as much money...
...thesis belonging to James Celestin '00 was spotted levitating in a River house computer lab... Aliya Iqbal '00 is used to mice in the kitchen but not in her bedroom... Ben Florman '99 spent a recent Thursday night stalking Elizabeth H. Winthrop '01, whom he claimed had stood him up. "Was he that blonde guy who pressed his face to the window?" mused Grafton Street bouncer I. L. Ike Black... Justin G. Muzinich '00 is newly single. Check out his Diesel Jeans!... Someone who looked quite a bit like Nicholas C. Fox '01 spent Monday afternoon sucking face with...
...middle of the night, with an orthodontically adorned Asian boy, to cover MTV s "So You Want to Be A VJ Contest." It seems that FM s crack team of personnel managers couldn t find a single other person capable of operating a manually focusing camera. Josh stood in line for over seven hours, amidst hoards of dirty, scary people, in-you guessed it-the pouring rain, just so he could take a photograph of Times Square that we probably could have lifted off of any one of three dozen postcards. For those of you have been wondering...
...began the seventh and final year of the Radcliffe Science Alliance. Besieged by the three letter F-words FAP, FOP and FUP, the Science Alliance stood alone amongst first-year programs as an academically oriented experience. In particular, the Alliance offered 40 incoming female first-years the opportunity to become acquainted with the resources and support network available to women in the sciences at Harvard. Touring chemistry labs by day and stargazing by night, the participants received early exposure to a wide range of facilities and opportunities on campus and in the Boston area. Some of the workshops were geared...