Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem to be), then what point does harping on the GPA-ethnicity correlations serve? Instead of motivating students to work harder, the emphasis on group averages may merely reinforce their prejudices as to how much they and their classmates can accomplish at Harvard. I hope no one tries to suppress the Indy's statistics, but I also hope to see an end to their use in Crimson editorials which lower expectations in the name of raising them. Andrew J. Baker...
That policy has done little to suppress the bandits, who at first melted into the countryside but lately have resumed depredations inside the towns. The continuing looting and shooting has prevented most displaced Somalis from returning home to their farms and fields. Particular targets of the armed thugs are relief agencies and their workers, who are among the few people in Somalia still possessing cash or other valuables. Over the past four months, four foreign aid workers have been killed, more than in the two years prior to the Marines' arrival...
...afflicted with the disease but unflinching in his courage, the other healthy but panicky, guilty and increasingly unable to cope. The healthy lover works at the same courthouse as a religious Mormon law clerk: despite good intentions and political ambitions, the Mormon is rapidly losing a lifelong battle to suppress his own homosexual urges. His mentor is Roy Cohn, the right-wing dealmaker who promiscuously savored homosexual sex but vehemently denied a gay identity right up to the moment of his death from AIDS...
...about as interesting to watch as the growth of bamboo. What's more, Dancing is multicultural with a vengeance, meaning that the producers think it insufficient to examine the central role that dance plays in primitive societies; they must also slam-dunk colonialism and Christianity for trying to suppress native cultures. Missionaries have much to answer for, but it is surely not unreasonable that they would seek to convert tribes from religions that encouraged cannibalism (as in Polynesia) or the ritual mutilation of female sex organs (as in much of black Africa...
Even the most stalwart opponents of gambling are breaking down. Louisiana, whose constitution orders the legislature to "suppress" gambling, decided to call it something else and in less than two years has gone from no gambling to riverboat gambling to approving the largest casino in the world on five riverfront acres in downtown New Orleans. Last fall the Bible Belt state of Missouri became a destination for riverboat gamblers off the shores of Kansas City and St. Louis. By the turn of the century, half of the states or more will probably have casinos, in part because...