Word: various
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spontaneously between numbers. band members broke out into a "how to make any song country" lesson. Countryfying various tunes like "We Ain't Gonna Take It," "Billy Jean" and "Whiter Shade of Pale," Pat laughed, "This is the kind of [stuff] we listen...
However, Shankar took an optimistic approach to the trend of violence among youths. "Project 2000" involves realizing various sources of and offering ways of dealing with this aggression, he said...
...this, Mora wisely decides to inhabit the mind of an aged Chicana named Aunt Carmen. The poems in Mora's books are presented as the secret prayers of Aunt Carmen, a strong-willed eighty-year-old house cleaner, to the various saints that make up the religious infrastructure of Southwestern Catholicism. Through Carmen, Mora explores the issues at the heart of religious faith...
...representatives from various University committees reported on their recent activity. The library committee reported that Langdell Library at Harvard Law School (HLS) plans to limit library access during the HLS exam period as law students felt that there were too many undergraduates flooding the library. Langdell will be closed to all students not in the law school from now until the end of the HLS exam period...
Also distasteful was the juxtaposition of the Holocaust memorial readings and Earth Day's endangered species readings. True, both were intended to be grave reminders of innocent victims. But when the names of various types of winged mammals were read with the same earnestness as the names of Holocaust victims, it did a disservice to both causes. The extinction of animals is, of course, a horrible occurrence in itself but its gravity is simply not comparable to the organized malicious slaughter of a particular ethnic group. All efforts should be made to avoid evoking that comparison in people's minds...