Word: stem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cause for excitement should stem from the fact that Harvard will face a team that is one of the richest in tradition when it comes to women's basketball. Additionally, the Crimson will battle this perennial power in Maples Pavilion, a building that is home to still more women's college basketball lore...
According to custom, the ladies each received a long-stem red rose and the men a small cigar. To the distress of the security guards, the majority of the cigars were lit inside the ball-room where there were no ashtrays...
...struggle between Maggs and Oates, a character obviously based on Dickens and lacking only the original's extenuating genius, forms the stem of Carey's plot. But, as befits a mock-19th century novel, there are many fascinating exfoliations. All of Carey's major characters come equipped with vivid childhoods--not just Maggs, thrown on a Thames mud flat as an infant and adopted in order to be trained as a thief, or Oates, humiliated and impoverished young by a feckless father. There is also Mercy Larkin, who befriends Maggs and who was sent into prostitution when barely more than...
...would be incredibly naive to claim that America is the ideal, that we are a United Nations graphic design of different colored children dancing hand-in-hand. Nobody needs to be told that many of our problems as a nation stem from our differences, or that deep-seated racism dominates many political issues. Nevertheless, I have grown up taking diversity for granted. But such a diversity is virtually unique to the U.S. Being accustomed to it incalculably changes the way one views the world...
...President's alleged affair into a polemic against Republicans and the Republican Party. Tobin compares the current scandal to Watergate; but this comparison serves only to highlight Clinton's relative innocence. While Nixon was "paranoid and plotting" and committed acts of "evil," Clinton's actions are merely "stupid" and stem from a "personal flaw." Of course, many of us have a large personal flaw and do many stupid things. Most of us, however, have never committed the felony of perjury--which Clinton allegedly...