Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that it takes a scandal to wake up a society, and more so that we in academia know so little of how the current loan scandals came about. The current economic facts of student loans in the United States, quite to the contrary of common opinion, are not a necessity for students, but rather, are a necessity for academic institutions...
...07—who began dating after meeting during freshman orientation—were fake-married. “We really wanted to demonstrate some of the great things about Korean culture in small, warm ceremony,” Yan said. “Especially in the wake of the V-Tech incident, we thought it was important to remind people that there is more to our culture.” “Ha Yan is our favorite tutor,” Zlatinova said. “She just asked us one day in the dining hall...
...gown. After the sumptuous meal, intended to lighten the misery (it didn't), the guests eagerly filed out to look for their men. "I'm not sure what's worse," a friend mused on the way out, "having a fun mixed wedding that gets raided by police or a wake like this...
...readers--were much more likely to stay on track toward graduation at the city's newer and smaller high schools than at its large conventional ones. "A big aha," says Hamilton, "is that a single strategy was not going to work. You need a portfolio of strategies." In the wake of the report, the city has examined what the best transfer schools, YABCs and GED programs were doing right and is trying to replicate them citywide...
...wake of John Paul?s poignant twilight, his successor and friend Pope Benedict XVI was largely granted a honeymoon from public criticism in the first year of his papacy. That of course ended abruptly with reaction from Muslims and non-Muslims alike to his provocative September speech in Germany about faith and reason, though even that died down with his well-received visit to Turkey in November. But over the past few months back in Rome, there has been a steady flow of criticism of the now 80-year-old pontiff, much of which also relates to his rigid views...