Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been warned about the dangers of Cambridge haircuts. She paid the price for her failure to heed the warning signals. She explains, "When I first went to college, the person that normally cut my hair said I should get it cut short [before I left] to avoid the chop-shops." Yeh refused to listen. Tragedy struck when, during her sophomore year, she got her hair cut at a to-remain-nameless institution in the Square. "It only looked right if I held my head at a 20-degree angle," she laughs. "There were two inches off one side and three...
Generic. Upperclassmen are anxious to waste a little time before class, and first-years dawdle in droves after a meal at Annenberg. Plagued by compulsive email checkers who read their mail every 20 minutes to avoid doing anything...
...Dalai Lama and all the world's peace movements have followed in his footsteps. Gandhi, who gave up cosmopolitanism to gain a country, has become, in his strange afterlife, a citizen of the world: his spirit may yet prove resilient, smart, tough, sneaky and, yes, ethical enough to avoid assimilation by global McCulture (and Mac culture too). Against this new empire, Gandhian intelligence is a better weapon than Gandhian piety. And passive resistance...
...cost of being labeled a traitor (by extremists on the right) and an opportunist (by the dogmatic left), he was ready to go a long way to accommodate the Arabs. Yet he was one of the first to foresee that in order for the Jews to avoid a showdown with the Arabs or to survive such a showdown, they must set up a shadow state and a shadow military force...
Having run away from his guardian to avoid an arranged marriage, he joined a law firm in Johannesburg as an apprentice. Years of daily exposure to the inhumanities of apartheid, where being black reduced one to the status of a nonperson, kindled in him a kind of absurd courage to change the world. It meant that instead of the easy life in a rural setting he'd been brought up for, or even a modest measure of success as a lawyer, his only future certainties would be sacrifice and suffering, with little hope of success in a country in which...