Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfortunate," said Seton about the Driskell-Burton mail drop. "If they were able to reach all 1,600 freshmen via the mail like that, that might, in part, explain the large margin of victory they...
...have full coverage for you in an upcoming issue....And for those of you not titillated by pop culture phenomena, we'll have you enraptured too: look for a special interview with Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Holy Smoke, in January....Have you ever tried explaining instant replay to somebody who has never heard of it before? My cousin and I tried it the other day when our Indian aunt exclaimed during a football game, What? What's going on? Didn't that just happen? We tried to explain it, but I realized how impossible...
...from the Quad after Social Studies 10 lecture with some meta-cronies. Disaster ensued as I was sucked into a Garden Street-long conversation centering on post-modernism. As soon as I escaped from the madness, I ran in to 14 Plymptom, ranting and raving. But before I could explain what happened, in came Anna, effusive and relentless in apology...
...from Westchester, N.Y. I grew up in Scarsdale and now I live in Bedford. It's a nice area. How do I explain this to you? I'm black, but I grew up in an all-white town. There were no other black people. It was like if you grew up without brothers and sisters. Definitely since I came to Harvard I've met a lot more black people. I did every activity growing up. I did Jell-O pudding commercials with Bill Cosby....I was very competitive in gymnastics from three to 15. I was second in the state...
...never played sports in Korea--there are no organized sports there. I started playing in Seattle and it was kind of an adjustment. My parents were used to the idea that there were two kinds of people: a student and an athlete--they were separate. I had to explain that it was part of the culture and I started wrestling and playing football...