Word: walke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late; the next year we had naked co-ed swimming in the Adams House pool. (Remember the administration's objection to co-ed living? Not morality but amenities: The Radcliffe dorms simply were not nice enough for Harvard men. And the 'Cliffe was so far--how could those boys walk?--I guess we'd better authorize...
Imagine that you have a thousand miles to walk and someone keeps stealing your shoes. Imagine that you have decided to risk everything to win the woman you love and you keep stumbling over your rival, already kneeling before her, reciting the lines you had carefully rehearsed. Imagine that you are Bob Dole, just a man, trying to get some traction while running for President. And every time you think you have spotted firm, sensible, conservative ground, there is the Democratic President already crouching in ambush. "If this keeps up, Bill Clinton won't have to make speeches anymore," Dole...
...field trip to local attractions. One year it was to Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. "We got the chance to see the electric chair," he says. There have been visits to a prison in Chesapeake and a women's penal institution in Goochland. Two months ago, it was a walk through Death Row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center...
...Bowling Park's success, which has shown up in higher test scores and a 97% attendance rate, is getting parents into the school. Many of them had never bothered even to walk their first-graders to class. CoZi offers "parent technicians"--two in Bowling Park's case--to visit parents at home, ask them what they need and spur them to form committees and organize projects. Responding to parent feedback, Bowling Park now offers adult-education courses, adult-exercise classes, a once-a-month Family Breakfast Club at which parents talk about children's books, a singing group...
...Secretary of State, my responsibility is to stay focused on the long haul. Some people would choose this critical moment to pronounce defeat for freedom in Russia and declare a new cold war. But as long as a better future is feasible, we should not walk away from an unprecedented opportunity to build a constructive relationship with Russia...