Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Hutchinson and Willey said that besides having work to do over the holiday, another problem with the present system is that many students who have a short intersession--sometimes only three days long--are still mentally drained when they begin of their second semester in February...
...knowledge of his father, nor does he realize that Mellamphy is not his real surname. Gradually, he comes to understand that his mother possesses something that a number of other people desperately want. It is the codicil to an old, disputed will concerning the immense Huffam estate. The present holder of that property, Sir Perceval Mompesson, wants to obtain the codicil so he can destroy it. But another, mysterious enemy can lay claim to the estate if he can 1) get his hands on the codicil and then 2) engineer the deaths of John and his mother...
...slick radio campaign kicked off last week by the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform says traffic, homelessness, drug smuggling and other social problems will only escalate if present rates of immigration continue. FAIR is seeking a tighter lid on illegal immigrants and a 300,000-a-year cap on legal new arrivals...
Gays have long gossiped about which public figures of past and present might be secret homosexuals. Publications from the scholarly to the semi-scabrous have speculated about the likes of Alexander the Great, Shakespeare, Willa Cather and James Dean, with hundreds of others cited along the way. This name dropping is defended as a way of giving the gay community role models and a sense of continuity. When the rumors involve living people, however, discussion about who is "in the closet" has generally been held to a discreet murmur -- partly in deference to libel laws but mostly in defense...
...coming out." Those focused on privacy are responding to society as it exists, with its emotional and sometimes physical perils for overt homosexuals. Those favoring disclosure are more concerned with society as they hope it may become, with tolerance for all. The political "causists" are prepared to sacrifice their present lives for future good. The problem with outing is that it claims an unjustifiable right to sacrifice the lives of others as well, whether they agree...