Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profile of these students can be transformed into a more healthy one. Certainly, their problems reveal the impact of modernity with its complex messages about uncertainty and doubt: the surviving elements from the drug counterculture, the drive for success (now highlighted by the human potential movements), the preoccupation with weight and food and the overriding narcissism of contemporary American society. Some argue that a "new cognition" has played an important role in the evolution of the contemporary student: a cognition that helped one understand the world without providing a way to find meaning in the world. It prompted a search...
...certain that Yeltsin can even make it into the second round of the election that will result if, as expected, no candidate wins a majority on the first ballot. It is also unclear whether he could beat Zyuganov one on one, saddled as he is with the weight of illness, the war in Chechnya and his identification with the pain and corruption of reform. Even if he were re-elected, who would push ahead with reform now that he has thrown its leading advocates out of his Cabinet...
...first focus on the question of blocking. For the last month, bickering has been the priority. Classes have fallen behind in importance to this all-consuming issue. Friendships gain a new dimension of tension. People studiously avoid the topic that carries weight for the next three years of our lives. Tears flow freely. Friendships seem to go up in flames. The little white lies my mother swore by backfire dramatically. Being blunt is the only option; then havoc breaks loose. We have been reduced to eighth grad--people stop talking to each other, talk behind each other's backs, scheming...
Among field event competitors, points were widely distributed. Junior pole vaulter Steven Brannon took third place, while freshman shot-putter Kenneth Hughes and junior weight-thrower Mark Clayman both came in fifth to contribute to the Harvard total...
...count departmental classes in place of Core classes. The superior nature of departmental classes would ensure that students actually attain the educational goals of the core, and would do away with the headaches and stagnation that have resulted from the existence of the SCCP, which acts like a lead weight on the progress of Harvard's curriculum. We hope that meaningful Core reform will be implemented without much more delay...