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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Colosio came from a humble background and climbed his way up through hard work. He attended public school--uncommon among the present generation of leaders--and obtained excellent grades. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Recently, he was nominated as the presidential candidate...
...undeservedly becoming associated with, and perhaps even epitomized as, all that is hateful about the road to medical school. Question such as, "Do we need to know this for the exam," (and if you don't you can promptly proceed to evacuate it from your mind) are not uncommon in a class where so much material has to be assimilated in a very narrow range of time, and for a letter grade which might prove a detriment to a model transcript. This competitive attitude is the basis of non-pre-med resentment towards pre-meds at large, and provides fodder...
...sliced away. Natural protuberances are viewed as ugly, the unchaste accoutrements of prostitutes. Elsewhere, the entire outer genitalia are removed and the two sides of the vulva sutured together until marriage, leaving only a tiny opening for the excretion of blood and urine. Infections and hemorrhaging are not uncommon; intercourse can be excruciatingly painful. The surgical methods are prescribed not by science but by a tradition that expects girls to go through such rites of passage before marriage. Oluloro is afraid that if she is deported from Portland, Oregon, to Nigeria, her two daughters Shade, 6, and Lara, 5 -- both...
...then the average person does not live in an atmosphere where his or her sacred places of worship are desecrated. It is not uncommon to find mosques in the Gaza Strip splattered with paint--the work of vandals. The mosque in the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza strip has a red dome, and orange and green walls. This embarrassing piece of art was done mostly by Israeli soldiers shooting paint from fire engines. Somehow we never read about this in the newspaper...
...completely unknown, they have no conflict of interest. Teaching fellows might be tempted to look the other way if they were proctoring the exam of someone who had struggled mightily in their course. A TF in a relationship with a student might even aid the cheating. It is not uncommon to be friendly with a TF, and friends just cannot proctor friends' exams with complete objectivity...