Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...serious and respected academic and historical institution. It is especially foolish to denounce the study of such a vitally formative period in American history. Corrupting bias comes as much from the defenders of right as from revisionists and apologists. In a very real sense much of the human tragedy of the Civil War and the great suffering of slavery have been in vain if memory is corrupted and distorted for political ends...
...only thoroughbred horse-racing track in Greater Boston, Suffolk Downs is a collapsed cathedral of pseudo-science and pure chance, of bitter old men and clouds of cigarette smoke, of nausea and human tragedy--and occasionally, of proof that hope springs eternal. Suffolk Downs is, to the uninitiated, no doubt an intimidating place, towering over East Boston, framed by the tracks of the blue line outbound for Wonderland. To the regulars, though it is a decrepit mass, it is also a place where the possibility of instant money--and more importantly, instant redemption-is omnipresent...
...Peace Corps. The FLA has also given a seat on its board of directors to a university representative from Princeton and has created a University Advisory Council, which, led by Notre Dame and Duke, will work to respond to university concerns. It is also led by responsible human rights organizations, including the International Labor Rights Fund and The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and manufacturers such as L.L. Bean and Reebok that seem genuinely concerned with the issues that also concern...
Students and others have urged that universities join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization that, in its words, intends to "receive and verify worker complaints of abuses and violations" of codes of conduct and "coordinate proactive investigations" of working conditions with local human rights organizations. It does not intend to conduct monitoring. It will have an organizing meeting in April, at which time it will select its governing board and advisory council and "deliberate on programmatic development...
...decided to come back on Sunday afternoon to the club's open workouts. I showed up and learned for another two hours, practicing five ways to break the human wrist and elbow. The line between club sport and art of war was greatly blurred, and I think that's what made it so empowering...