Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week in the life of crime is never enough to establish the existence of increased danger in any urban area. The staff thus overstates its concern for long-term student safety based on a questionable pattern of three unrelated crimes. Instead, the focus should rest on the recent robbery in the Winthrop JCR. Rarely are students forced to confront assailants in the comfort of their own houses or dorms...
...honor. Standing under the hot lights last Thursday, Bill Clinton's close friend and unofficial adviser made it clear that this media circus meant little to him. "Never apologize, never explain"--that had been his motto for 17 years, ever since he left the presidency of the National Urban League after a racist gunman nearly took his life, going on to become Washington's most powerful back-room fixer. Now he had to violate that principle and offer a partial explanation of his role in the tawdry matter of Monica Lewinsky. "After I shall have read my statement," he said...
Consider: in just a couple of decades, sports have metastasized from one of life's small, innocent pleasures into a kind of cultural kudzu, filling our cable channels with games and game "analysis," our urban centers with stadiums and our brains with forgettable factoids about Terrell Davis' shoulder and Brett Favre's third-down conversions. Once there were two seasons and two sports, with a decent interval between, during which courtships occurred and family members became reacquainted. In that distant era, bars were appropriately morose settings for the serious contemplation of fate and its ironies, not frenetic assemblages of monitors...
...really had a favorite school [Harvard]," Lampley said. "I have always wanted to go to a big school that is urban and has a campus feel...
...NuSouth partners see themselves as taking on giants like Polo and Tommy Hilfiger. They object to the way those mainstream manufacturers are, in their view, "pimping" urban culture. "A $25 Hilfiger T shirt means nothing," challenges Evans, who, like Quintero, is black. "This is an empowering message for us, by us and about...