Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Lieberman pointed to the lingering issue of divestment as an place where "Harvard should set an example of moral behavior...
Consequently, the city may be headed for a set of lengthy legal battle before it can resolve its problems with minority department members...
...untrue. What made the story so compelling was not that the people were ordinary but that they could be portrayed as extraordinary. In an age of broken marriages and abandoned dreams, the suburbs of Boston had yielded a perfect couple unquestionably devoted to each other. And this couple were set upon by scum...
...standard for journalistic hagiography was set in 1932 with the kidnaping and later killing of Charles Lindbergh's infant son. Lindbergh was already a bona fide hero, so the media concentrated on canonizing his family: the faithful and pregnant wife; the child who was "a golden-haired replica of his famous father"; Lindbergh's "visibly distraught" mother, who, despite her suffering, persisted in teaching chemistry at a high school in Detroit...
While no date is set for Mandela's freedom, President F.W. de Klerk is almost certain to let him go within the next few weeks, possibly during the opening session of the South African parliament in early February. Mandela's release could be followed by the unbanning of the African National Congress, the liberation of political detainees and the return of A.N.C. exiles to South Africa, helping prepare the way for a round-table conference to discuss a new constitution that will finally give blacks the vote...