Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back on Mass Ave., the Harriet Tubman House turns out to be an immigrant settlement, one of the United South End Settlements Houses. Two college students behind the counter in the lobby say the settlement house system was founded at the turn of the century to organize language classes, job files and job training for recent immigrants. "As you can see by the architecture, this lovely building was built in the late sixties," the woman working the desk says in her best tour guide voice. The second student continues, "We still have language classes, but now there...
...Union we are becoming weaker, in my view because many of us have prematurely thrown in the towel. We, the members, are the Union, and it is our responsibility to each other and to the future security, health, benefit and strength of our work lives at Harvard to turn this thing around...
Instead of watching our professors, some of us are critiquing our neighbor's thighs. Instead of talking in section, some of us are counting calories. Hands turn orange, laxatives get consumed, hours get lost hunched over a StairMaster. Some of us can't even eat our own birthday cake...
...taboo. The turn to the dark side can be pleasurable if the conversing Other shares a similar predicament with reference to It. But if that Other is, for example, a first-semester senior or--worse!--a junior, hell hath no fury like the------writer who is questioned as to the topic of his or her paper...
...This ruling brings a whole new range of behaviors under the umbrella of Title VII," says TIME correspondent Adam Cohen. "It's an important case." Yet it was a relatively easy decision for the unanimous court. "The court went out of its way not to turn this into a gay-rights case," says Cohen. "It's a simpler question of general applicability -- harassment is harassment...