Word: statement
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...centers devoted to poetry, or English literature, or biology, or history or art. But aside from a few seemingly random choices (the Business and Technology Center, the Steve Silver/Beach Blanket Babylon Music Center), virtually all the centers focus on particular racial, ethnic or sexual minorities. The library's mission statement declares that the Main Library is dedicated to promoting "the joys of reading for our diverse community," but the centers interpret that diversity in the most literal sense. A "center" for black readers ought to contain more than books on race; a gay man or woman might have interests beyond...
...just pledged last semester--my junior spring--yet it's already become one of my most significant extracurricular experiences at school. The reason is that by the time I pledged, I was positive that the sorority was the right place for me, because I knew myself--a seemingly simple statement, but one that was a long time in coming...
Robinson's wife and four children released a statement calling him "a loving and caring husband and father," adding that they "did not know the person whom we have read and heard about on TV." At the QT filling station down the road from Robinson's farm, where he regularly stopped for gas and soda, the manager put it a little differently: "I guess there are a lot of people who don't know a lot about...
...million, claiming that he actually pulled out of the movie during a May 30 meeting, after the studio had already laid out millions in production costs and made Dieter the Teutonic tent pole of its summer 2001 schedule. Myers, who is thinking of countersuing, released the following statement: "I cannot, in good conscience, accept $20 million and cheat moviegoers who pay their hard-earned money for my work by making a movie with an unacceptable script." Hopefully, similar problems can be avoided in the Coffee Talk screenplay...
...congressional hearing into the Los Alamos losses, a move that garnered considerable ire in the form of a strikingly unsubtle rebuke to the secretary: The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed the nation's first National Nuclear Security Administration. But that wasn't the end of Richardson's nonchalance. In a statement apparently devoid of irony, he reportedly complained that the creation of a new security position might encroach on the energy secretary's jurisdiction over the nuclear labs. Which, of course, may be exactly the point...