Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advising system to speak of. More importantly, we recognize that the weight of our diplomas rests on Harvard's reputation in the outside world. Unless we cooperate every year to attract a new crop of the best and brightest, that reputation and consequently our own standing will suffer. In the case of the our parents, we just want them to feel that the great cost of our education has been worth it. If we took them to sit in on an Expos section, they might start to wonder...
...author for convoluted reasoning or poor writing, instead of redoubling our efforts to understand the argument or develop a more sophisticated critique. Rather than engage controversial authors, we are only too eager to brand them as racist, ignorant, sexist or enmeshed in the dominant culture--and we suffer because we ignore their insights...
...Thais call sanuk, which is more than just fun; it's a philosophy of fun," says Ressner, who has sojourned to Thailand twice before. As for his own sanuk, Ressner spent one lazy day aboard a rickety boat and another in a Buddhist temple. He says he did not suffer much culture shock until his return...
Watkins is the cool one; she sings low and buries her emotions. She received a diagnosis of sickle-cell anemia when she was seven years old, and she continues to suffer from it. (She became a spokesperson for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America in 1996.) The ailment, on her bad days, makes her feel as if she has "a big old butcher knife" stabbing into her joints. Sometimes, she says, the pain is so excruciating that she can't walk or use her arms, and family members and friends have to feed her. "The only two items...
...Senate committee investigating the nation's Y2K problem plans is issuing a report Tuesday, and its basic message is: Be prepared for some disruptions, but don't panic. The senators conclude that the United States will not suffer a meltdown of services, but there will be glitches. Some of the systems that could suffer minor disruptions include those involved in food and energy distribution, medical records and financial records. "The Senate report underscores the fact that the Y2K problem is serious," says TIME assistant managing editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, "but it is not the end of the world...