Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...freshman class this year shows unprecedented ethnic diversity. As has been the case each year for well over a decade, there is a record number of Asian Americans (nearly 20 percent of the class). African Americans comprise 7.9 percent of the class, while Hispanic students make up 6.6 percent. An additional 0.5 percent are Native Americans. We have, by any measure, the strongest group of minority students in the country. The College benefits enormously by having such a large and talented group of minority students in its student body. Not only is the quality of the educational environment richer...
...truth, there is much to censure and correct in the record that begins with Columbus. U.S. textbooks are just beginning to give proper emphasis to pre-Columbian cultures. Sale's iconoclastic biography is as one-sided as a lawyer's brief, but the evidence of European disdain for the conquered Eden and its inhabitants is hard to challenge. Between 1492 and 1514, as a result of disease and accumulated atrocities, the native Taino population on the island of Hispaniola shrank from an estimated 8 million to 28,000. By 1560 the Taino were extinct...
...that our problems aren't real. We're too deep in debt. Total American debt -- government, corporate and personal -- stands at a record 190% of our gross national product. Historically, 140% would be a more reasonable level. But the best way to cut the debt isn't necessarily to lay everybody off and have a depression. Massive bankruptcies would wipe out a lot of debt but also make us a lot poorer. No, muddling through is a better idea, working down the debt over many years. By making things for export rather than for our own consumption, by spending more...
...Progress of the Seasons, a 1989 book nominally about Boston's accursed Red Sox baseball team but mostly about the author's family, Higgins offers a shimmering truth: Irish Catholic males can't talk to one another about important personal matters. (Scandinavian Protestant males can't either, for the record.) So he, his father and his grandfather talked about baseball with deep seriousness, as if it mattered, thus showing their love...
...comment that I don't take things as seriously as I did my first year, I meant that I would no longer get stressed out to the point of crying during an exam. This does not mean that I do not take academics seriously, and I believe my academic record is evidence of this...