Word: thereof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pragmatism will raise the standard of living for all Chinese; liberty as we know it will come later, and it can wait. Eventually the Chinese will throw off the old trappings of Stalinist and Maoist philosophy and adopt a culture that balances the privileges of liberty with the responsibilities thereof. Surely the next hundred years will be called "the Chinese Century." MARC NEVILLE Harrisburg...
PROSE BEAUS AND BELLES O.K. So you can't judge a book by the cover. But perhaps there's another way. Maybe you can judge the author by the cover or, more precisely, the lack thereof. Take a peek at some recent book authors without jackets: Isabel Allende (Aphrodite), Douglas Coupland (Girlfriend in a Coma) and Elizabeth Wurtzel (Bitch...
...challenges that Lidie faces (both physically and mentally), it keeps the book feeling genuine, and never once lets it digress into a cheap Western adventure-romance dime novel. The author relies a bit too heavily on powers of description, with enormous paragraphs dedicated to describing the finery (or lack thereof) around the heroine. But then again, such descriptions keep the authenticity of the book alive...
...after all this suffering, after months of whining, I was finally handing in my thesis and flying off to the Bahamas with four good friends for what promised to be a week of mind-numbing frivolity. Here there would be no talk of job offers (or lack thereof) or anything even remotely related to academics. Everything that I had been deprived of, including partying, relaxation, quality time with friends and most of all sunlight, was now well within my reach...
...weather warms, many students display their latent athleticism (or lack thereof) by participating in individual sports such as bikeriding, rollerblading, or group endeavors like whiffle-ball or soccer...