Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Student Assembly in 1989-90. The strongest skill he says he gained was "being able to manage and coordinate the efforts of, what was back then, 85 people, and to motivate and excite a large group of people like that to do things." He still keeps in touch with the then-treasurer and secretary, and also keeps contact with other council people on a "professional basis--a lot of them are all over the place doing all sorts of different things." Some of the efforts that went on that year included an early discussion of House randomization. "We had some...
...really want everyone to keep in touch and not forget about the four years they had here," she said...
...dilemma is that he is the prisoner of the Chinese Communist Party, which he leads 50 years after its revolution: a party that is empty of vision, worried about unrest, out of touch with a younger generation of Chinese for whom money, not ideology, is the bottom line. The harder Jiang tries to impress, the less China's population wants to listen. He understands the need for economic development, but political openness is still out of the question. Even as the ink was drying on the trade deal, police were detaining members of Falun Gong, the banned meditation cult...
CREATURE COMFORTS Instead of a mouse, laptops use a touch pad or a pointer. Try them both before...
...work. Part biography, part lyrical deconstruction and part fan letter, Alterman's book locates the singer-songwriter's strength in his ability to connect the small struggles of the common man with the broad political and social forces that engulf us, and to do so with a human touch...