Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still am, shocked by the stereotypes and prejudices in American society against Muslims and Islamic culture," Asani says. "There were people who, when you tell them you're a Muslim, think you're a fanatic or a terrorist. This is based on ignorance. I thought I wanted to dispel stereotypes through my teaching...
Young remembers having to tell the man to leave: "He looked at me very sadly and told me 'you've ruined everything,' and then he walked down the stairs. I listened for the door to open and close but I never heard it." Perhaps he never left. Likewise, perhaps none of the ghosts of Harvard have departed. As their stories fade into oblivion, the memories and pictures seem more foggy in the minds of both those who try not to forget them as well as those who refuse to see them. As Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, insisted, there...
...wrote an overzealous introduction, declaiming about 'mankind.' He didn't get any comment about his bad introduction, or anything else, he remembers. Instead, the T.F. just circled the word 'mankind' and wrote a "weird cryptic comment that said, 'Use humanity. Though it seems like P.C. mumbo jumbo, they tell me I have to say that.'" Upon checking the handbook for teaching fellows, Shrier discovered that the T.F. was indeed supposed to correct gender-biased language. Having the correction being the only comment on the entire paper, however, might be taking things a little...
...Zachary L. Shrier's '99 15-page papers, the professor wrote "Nice paper--but so what?" Shrier comments, "So what? I don't know! You're the professor; you tell me so what!" Davis has also experienced the "So What" Phenomenon. His Expos preceptor would write the inexplicable words "the so what factor" next to various random lines in the paper. "It's easy to interpret that as 'I don't care about your paper' rather than as 'Why is this important to your paper?'" Davis notes. "On one of my papers, she wrote, 'Good title' next to my title...
...Iowa (which is building the baby-booming family a new house) to multinationals like Proctor and Gamble (who gave a lifetime supply of Pampers), all of America seems to be pitching in. Not surprising, then, that proud dad Kenny's first comment was simply: "Wow!" As any father will tell him, now comes the difficult part: the first eighteen years...