Word: throughout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some said Harvard is not immune. A broadruling on this case could potentially shake thefoundations of Byerly Hall and admissions officeson college campuses throughout the United States.Institutions of higher education in California,Texas and other states have already been bannedfrom using affirmative action as a factor inadmissions in recent years...
...Throughout most of the fourth disk, synthesizers play floating minor chords over mechanized drumbeats. In the mystifyingly moronic "Trouble in Paradise," the same Springsteen who professes to value lyrics actually writes "You do the drying, I'll do the dishes/Who'll do the crying when all the wishes don't come true?" Springsteen must have intended for the listener to sense a deep, realistic optimism at the core of Springsteen's famous hard-luck pessimism: instead, he sounds like a musical Danielle Steele, chronicling the middle-age discovery of true joy in a tainted world: "Happy/With you in my arms/Happy/With...
...upon him in the form of an heirloom pocket watch; as a big brother, Stu tells Tommy, he now has a responsibility to take care of Dil. Tommy is awed by the watch his father has given him, and takes good care of the "sponsitility," as he calls it, throughout the movie. Never mind the fact that Tommy is all of two years old and more likely to drool on it than appreciate its antique beauty--anything can happen in a Rugrat's world...
...role to be seasoned rice, tokenambassadors of our race throughout Harvard'sHouses," said panelist and Senior First MarshalBaratunde R. Thurston, speaking in defense ofself-segregation...
...witness remained polite throughout, never once leaping over the table, grabbing an inquisitor by his ears and screaming, "Hey, flannel mouth--does the phrase 'posturing hypocrite windbag' ring a bell?" Indeed, I sometimes fantasize about being subpoenaed to such a hearing, just for the chance to hit back. I've got my answers ready: "Excuse me, sir; did you develop your devotion to morality before or after you left your second wife for that podiatrist's assistant?" "Senator, when you ask about a cover-up, are you referring to that pathetically unconvincing toupee?" "I'll make you an offer, Congressman...