Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy answers. Education and awareness may generate the most immediate beneficial change, and I would hope sincere efforts to that effect would become a more familiar part of the Harvard landscape. But there are also more fundamental changes each of us can make in our ways of thinking and acting. These changes, though they ask for little effort, would serve as the basis for a lasting commitment to end the assaults which so silently plague Harvard and other American universities...
...tried helicopters, unmarked cars, plainclothes officers, everything," Bergmann says. "We once wrote 100 citations, and we've called parents from up to 100 miles away to come get their kids. But none of it has an effect. I don't have the manpower to send someone out there every night...
...documentary 4 Little Girls, which debuts on HBO on Feb. 23 at 9 p.m. E.T., Spike Lee sets out to tell the stories of the victims of the bombing and to explain why it happened when and where it did and the effect it had on the civil rights movement. The film was briefly in theatrical release last year, and has just been nominated for an Oscar. Shifting smoothly from the most poignant details of the girls' lives--Scout badges, a first pair of grownup shoes--to the actions of historical figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King...
...head for a submerged "habitat" on the ocean floor, yank on their wet suits and start poking around the wreck. And the standard scare scenes start occurring on a more or less predictable schedule--leaks, explosions, monsters popping out of the dark depths--with a more or less predictable effect on the health, mental and physical, of the intruders, not to mention the quality of the dialogue, which deteriorates largely to murmured suspicions and warning shouts...
...OSCARS No nomination for Leonardo DiCaprio? For many young fans, he was Titanic's best special effect...