Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, Carter said, the government needs to address the problem now rather than in the panic-stricken atmosphere after the fact...
...used to happen only occasionally, on and about the 24th of April each year. Recently, though, having walked daily through gates that assert "veritas" and having realized at the same time that Harvard and the world outside it would rather forget certain truths than elucidate them, I am stricken with melancholy more often than in the past. A particular truth to which I refer, one that since its dark inception has been the target of active efforts to erase it from the pages of history, is the Armenian Genocide, which will be commemorated tomorrow worldwide...
Black, white; man, woman; father, child: questions of identity blur in this hypnotic story of Scottish jazz trumpeter Joss Moody, who, like the real Billy Tipton, is shockingly discovered after his death to have been a woman. Told from the point of view of his grief-stricken widow Millie, his adopted son Colman and Sophie Stones, a tabloid hack hot on Moody's trail, Trumpet is about the walls between what is known and what is secret. "Every person goes about their life with a bit of perversion that is unadmittable, secretive, loathed," Kaye writes. Marred by a central inconsistency...
DIED. PHILIP STRAX, 90, impassioned radiologist who ran free clinics for women and championed early detection of breast cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Stricken by the loss of his first wife to the disease, Strax helped lead a landmark 62,000-woman-strong study in the 1960s that found mammography could reduce fatalities by a third...
...hand, we protest the egregious activities of Shell Oil in Nigeria in defense of the health of local inhabitants and the local environment. Yet on the other hand, we protest the destruction of Indonesian rainforests by poverty-stricken farmers for the sake of "biodiversity." So is environmentalism a socially progressive movement that protects the little person from corporate exploitation? Or is it an imperialist project that seeks to prevent people from using their own resources due to a belief that tropical forests matter more than local welfare...