Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After that auspicious beginning, I was determined to make the best of the situation. I didn't tell my parents that my boxes hadn't arrived yet because they would have worried, and I tried to bring some normalcy to my life. That included ignoring orientation week altogether. I didn't go to any of the Freshman Week events; instead, I tried to focus on things that would make life more normal for me. I flipped through the course catalog to figure out what courses I wanted to take, oriented myself around Harvard Square, and looked through the Unofficial Guide...
...name, I didn't make a final decision until the day the envelope came from Harvard with the names of my roommates. I wanted to call and introduce myself, and obviously had to tell them what they should call me. It would be no good to call back a few days later and say I'd changed my mind...
Though it's too soon to tell whether students will take their Marriage 101 lessons with them to the altar, advocates maintain the courses are already helping teens relate better to their parents and peers. In a five-year Boston University study, students who took The Art of Loving Well course were less likely to rush into sex. Scott Gardner, a South Dakota State University assistant professor evaluating marriage ed in that state's schools, found that after a semester-long course, students were more likely to reason out arguments than resort to aggression...
...hear Slobodan Milosevic tell it, his surrender to NATO was the happy ending to a fairy tale. Appearing before his bombed-out, beleaguered nation on TV last Thursday, he said, "The aggression ended. Peace prevailed. Dear citizens, happy peace to us all!" It's hard to know how any rational Serb could stand it. After starting and losing four wars in eight years, Milosevic was calling on his people to rejoice. Some bought it, singing along to the government tune. But once the Serbs wake up from their agitprop reverie, they will discover a country in ruins. Some were already...
Long after they've grown up, your kids will recall the view from the backseat--the way you laugh at their knock-knock jokes, the promise of a treat at the next rest stop, your willingness to tell one more story about that horse Dixie, his owner Mary Beth and all their animal friends on the farm in Tennessee. So whether you're headed for a nearby campground or a five-star resort, you owe it to your place in posterity to make getting there as much fun as being there. Bon voyage...