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Word: wised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Note that certain classes require advance registration and are always liable to change, so calling ahead is wise. Partners are optional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOU CAN DANCE. | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...This diversity does not delegitimize Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, nor does Kwanzaa's relative newness. No one, including "would-be wise man" Maulana Karenga, is insisting that all black Americans exist in the same social spaces. Kwanzaa is about certain core values and norms and very little about Africa. We hope anyone who comments on Kwanzaa has thoroughly researched the rituals involved therein. They will find that they have no basis in any actual African practices or religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

This diversity does not delegitimize Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, nor does Kwanzaa's relative newness. No one, including "would-be wise man" Maulana Karenga, is insisting that all black Americans exist in the same social spaces. Kwanzaa is about certain core values and norms and very little about Africa. We hope anyone who comments on Kwanzaa has thoroughly researched the rituals involved therein. They will find that they have no basis in any actual African practices or religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Need for Context in Black History Month | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

...made a wise choice," Frank said. "Incumbent vice presidents who want to be president are nearly unstoppable...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kerry Declines to Run in 2000 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...film-school wonderboy. "He has no awareness of movie history, and in a way that's refreshing," notes executive producer Steve Tisch. "It sounds funny saying it, but Guy is a guy's guy." If he had given in to other impulses, he could have been, as other wise guys say, a made man. "I left school at 15," Ritchie says, "and got distracted by the ways of the underworld." He was arrested for (but not charged with) robbery after a police search of his home yielded TVs, VCRs and stereos with no serial numbers. Ultimately Ritchie determined that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond Pulp Affliction | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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