Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enter Eliot House, following my friend Adam Steinert...
...even evoked that old quadruped, Joe Camel, in attacking gun ads that promote crime-friendly features like fingerprint-proof handles. But the White House isn't necessarily after gun manufacturers' wallets. "While a big money settlement like the one with tobacco would be nice," notes TIME senior political writer Adam Cohen, "I think the President really wants behavioral control." That includes manufacturing safer guns, such as "smart guns," which can only be fired by their owners. With this kind of pressure coming to bear, the gunmakers' best shot at minimizing the damage may be to swallow hard and take...
...meet. Among these were Mike Im and Jamey Waters, who were also double event winners. Im won the 100 and 200 backstroke with times of 49.40 and 1:47.31, respectively. Waters took the 100 freestyle in a time of 45.12. Waters teamed with Matt Fritsch, Brian Swinteck and Adam Shaw to win the 400 freestyle relay...
...Harvard sent three divers to the meet, and all three turned in solid performances. Sophomore Erik Frost, freshman Erik Patton and freshman Adam Grant scored on both the one-meter and three-meter boards, holding up well against non-Ivy competition...
...books, taken together, right that imbalance somewhat. Edward M. Kennedy, A Biography by New York Times reporter Adam Clymer (William Morrow; 692 pages; $27.50) is a painstaking reconstruction of the Senator's life that winds up placing him alongside such other Senate giants as Hubert Humphrey and Robert Taft. In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy by Ronald Steel (Simon & Schuster; 220 pages; $23) is a hard-eyed rumination on the difference between the real (and of course flawed) Robert Kennedy and the popular memory of his greatness...