Word: vi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartboard mourns the ending of "Real World VI: Boston," the latest installment in MTV's voyeuristic soap opera. Though we weren't able to watch every episode (due to the lack of cable TV in our dorm rooms and, perhaps, the business of our own real worlds), we were able to keep up with the adventures of Montana, Syrus, Genesis, Elka, Jason, Kameelah and Sean by catching the occasional show over the summer and Thanksgiving break and, of course, by reading the media reviews of the show the Boston Globe summed up as "generic and unmemorable." Generic, sure. After...
...dietary regimen to serve as a silent protest against the "culture of death," especially legalized abortion and euthanasia. No meat on Fridays was long a strict church rule, observed by millions "under pain of sin." But in 1966, after the Second Vatican Council liberalized many other practices, POPE PAUL VI permitted bishops in each country to set their own dietary practices. But now Friday may once again mean fish fingers...
...Canadian citizen who was born in Wales and reared in England, I have made major adjustments in my views of the monarchy during the past weeks. The House of Windsor last served a purpose during World War II, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mum) chose not to escape to the safety of remote Balmoral...
...want to attract people who are really interested," said Vi T. Nguyen '98, who runs the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment program. "We're de-emphasizing the money...
...Queen--which may not be for decades, given that the Queen Mum is 97. But the one thing Charles will not do, according to people who study these matters, is step aside. "There is a slow, tenacious obstinacy about the man which is a characteristic of his grandfather George VI," Starkey notes. "He wants to be King." Says Lord Blake: "Charles' whole life has been geared to the assumption that he will be King. There is not the slightest evidence from anyone that he has any intention of giving it up." Even if he wanted to turn the throne over...