Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People ask me, 'what's it like to be a movie star?' Actually working with movie stars lets me know that I'm not one," he says matter-of-factly...
...course, those of us in the know weren't the least bit surprised when Leyritz went deep. There had been that none-too-small matter of a 15th-inning shot into the Yankee Stadium bleachers to put the Bombers up two games to nothing over the Seattle Mariners in perhaps the greatest postseason series of the decade, one whose conclusion I've long since repressed...
...council's gender and ethnic composition would matter little if all the council did was plan dances. But given the council's power to distribute $120,000 to student groups and--more critically--to represent the student body's voice to the Administration, internal diversity is very important...
Some council members have argued that it does not matter what a student's race or gender is, so long as he or she can represent diverse views. This view is doubly mistaken: first, in the presumption that one's personal background is irrelevant to council decision-making, and second in the idea that there is nothing inherently wrong with the council's being largely composed of white males...
...want to] learn from each others' thinking on the matter," he said...