Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grateful my children are beyond the reach of policies that replace the joy of learning with the fear of failing. As a teacher, I shudder at what the educrats have wrought for America's youth. BETTY RASKOFF KAZMIN Willard, Ohio...
Last week Lee sent another shudder through the tangled relationship. In a carefully calculated statement, he cut away the political fiction that has kept the three parties at peace for nearly three decades. Taiwan, he said, no longer subscribed to the deliberately ambiguous "one China" formula that deemed the Chinese mainland and Taiwan two parts of the same country. From now on, declared Lee, Taiwan intended to operate on a "state-to-state" basis with the mainland, demanding that Beijing treat the island as an equal. This "clarification" to Beijing's ears seemed touchily close to a declaration of independence...
...found some good friends among the people who lived in my dorm and generally had a very good time after that first rough month getting used to people and living with them. I found an activity I truly enjoyed, witnessed my first Primal Scream (I still shudder), chose a concentration, and found love at the First-Year Formal. There was also the drama of "blocking." I prayed each night before the housing lottery that I wouldn't get "Quadded." Fortunately, I ended up in Quincy House, which I liked for several different reasons, one being that it doesn't have...
...mute. And the magnificent swirl of the cosmos simply marks time: it cannot tell us of history, cannot instruct us on what to remember, what to proscribe, what to avoid. Memory is born of biological time, and it is borne on blood and bone and phlegm. Can the stars shudder at sacrifice? Only humankind can grasp the need for heroism amid the persistence of warfare simply by noticing that virtually across the street from the bronze soldiers, who fought a war spawned in the Balkans, is Yugoslavia's mission to the U.N. And only we can repent of forgetting that...
There are plenty of New Yorkers with equally unusual theories. But Li is the only one with millions of followers, thousands of whom took to the Beijing streets a week ago, sending a shudder through a shocked Chinese leadership...