Word: hourse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The implications of these changes for academia are staggering. Soviet Studies professors, who once took long vacations without anyone's noticing, can't go to the bathroom for fear they'll miss two or three key announcements. They spend their spare hours looking in the dictionary for new phrases to...
"Omigod, Omigod, it's midterms, I'm late with a 10-page paper, my section leader called me at midnight on Friday to tell me I'm failing--at midnight on Friday--I failed the GRE's, my thesis advisor wants an outline, I have a job interview tomorrow, and...
The scene is South Central Los Angeles, but it could as easily be Detroit, Grand Rapids or Kansas City. A young white male driving a 1989 Thunderbird slowly circles one of the worst blocks in the city. He nods toward a group of blacks hanging out at a corner. As...
Since she didn't date, didn't wear makeup (still doesn't) and took college classes while still in high school, she didn't have a typical American adolescence, but says she didn't care. From childhood on, she could go "for hours and days just playing by myself or...
Stephen Ambrose's Nixon, the second of the historian's three volumes, covers the period between his subject's debacle in the 1962 California gubernatorial election and vindication by landslide in the presidential election of 1972. As in his first installment, Ambrose sets out the chronicle in meticulous detail, relying...