Word: minded
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Never mind that almost a quarter of Harvard undergraduates are Jewish, or that many students practice some religion other than Christianity or no religion at all. In the euphoria surrounding the Christmas season, many students and staff seem to forget that there are other denominations around...
Although some of the most prominent names invited to the reception--President Derek C. Bok, Gov.-elect William F. Weld '66 and U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry--failed to show up, most of those attending seemed not to mind the absences...
...those who lived it. Whether it's the primitive swamplands of the Devonian period or the orgies of the Greek cult of Dionysos, god of wine (which started with the tearing apart of a goat, a bull or a baby), Gonick succeeds in fixing facts more in your mind than even the most exhilirating textbook. And Gonick is able to maintain the historical accuracy of his work, making it one of the most educational comic books ever...
...coal-producing regions and elsewhere have contributed their share in crippling the national economy, already weakened by inflation. The irony of these strikes, of course, is that the workers shouldn't need to strike in a state where they are by law their own bosses. With this in mind, Lenin outlawed strikes during the civil war following the October Revolution...
...Western mind often doesn't recognize, asSmith does, that Andreyevna's message has a lot ofresonance among Soviet citizens. Gorbachev'sreforms--allowing small "cooperatives" of privateenterprise, for example--have struck fear in manySoviets, conditioned to fear rapacious capitalistspeculators making money off of other people'smisfortunes. Glasnost, conservativescorrectly claim, has also led to a plethora ofanti-government messages bombarding the publicfrom sources such as the newspaperLiteraturnaya Gazeta and the wildly populartelevision program Vzglad...