Word: vi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complaint, filed last spring by former Harvard Law Professor Derrick A. Bell, charged that Harvard has "violated several anti-discrimination provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights...
...remarkably blameless in her public conduct, but it has been less and less easy for her descendants. There were problems with her eldest son as Prince of Wales and later as Edward VII -- a remarkable womanizer and rakehell by the standards of any era. But George V and George VI, Elizabeth's father, who assumed the crown after Edward VIII's abdication, were devoted family men who publicly upheld their roles as Defender of the Faith. The present Queen, in the 45th year of her marriage to Prince Philip, has never personally attracted a breath of scandal...
...VI. The Great Outdoors. Though surroundings seem to be secondary, environments do tend to be conducive to lovemaking. Skies are often a sultry red. Water imagery is popular, symbolizing rebirth in sexual union. Tumultous seas represent the power struggle. Lush vegetation alludes to fertility. Flowers are always present in the cover's corners, though they may vary from pristine daisies to exotic, unrecognizable-yet-obviously-tropical blossoms...
...activist interpretations do not necessarily run counter to Vatican teaching. Back in 1974 Pope Paul VI portrayed Mary as a "woman of strength who experienced poverty and suffering, flight and exile." John Paul II has said much the same thing, referring to Mary's "self-offering totality of love; the strength that is capable of bearing the greatest sorrows; limitless fidelity and tireless devotion to work...
STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. The unseen star of this instant smash is Mikhail Gorbachev: his overtures to peace some years back inspired a parable of detente involving the Enterprise guys and the evil Klingon empire. Though William Shatner & Co. claim that this is the saga's last chapter, we'll bet they keep going until Willard Scott is wishing them all happy birthday. That would be about...