Word: unless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panelist asked, "How do we reach out to every student on campus?" Unfortunately, people like me who felt culturally fulfilled when they came to Harvard are not going to realize that they need to know about other cultures unless they are told. I probably won't go to an event that is pitched merely as a celebration of a particular culture. I'm really happy with the cultures I know about. But I will attend Ghungroo this year because I heard it was a great show, not in order to celebrate South Asian heritage. We all came here...
...drawing diligent students from heavily minority schools. The Texas law was politically smarter than the California plan, since it cast reform as a way of encouraging students to get better grades; that's why G.O.P. Governor George W. Bush happily signed it. California's anti-SAT effort is doomed unless it is pitched the same...
...hear no charges of "coddling dictators," a phrase Clinton had used against George Bush in the 1992 campaign. Finally, Clinton overruled his aides on having a private chat with Jiang, saying, "Listen, I can't really see where he stands on these things and really express my own feelings unless I'm able to meet with him alone or with a very small group...
...scrubbing her Hollywood home scrupulously. Along with her floors, she says, she washes her hands "many times" each day and uses her elbows to push open doors. "I'm not scared of germs. I'm just aware of them," Diaz says. "I'm not into other people's fluids unless I know them really well...
Yeah, but not in Sam's case--unless you thought of him as a sort of Charles Ives, drawing on the vernacular only to subvert it with a big, blatting off-key note. Like the brave soldier who spreads his battlefield picnic on a fallen foe's body; the beautiful blond whose wig falls off in a fight to reveal a perfectly bald pate; the western hero who coolly plugs his lover when the bad guy tries to use her as a shield in a gun fight. Sam didn't strain for these bold, indelible moments. They just came naturally...