Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's coverage of the Grant Affair has missed an important point: if one is entitled to keep a piece of information private, one must also be entitled to lie if asked directly. For example, if I am entitled to keep an illness private, I must also be entitled to lie if asked, "Do you have an illness?" Will Rehling Cambridge
...establishment of a ROTC program at Harvard. It would be fun to watch liberals here being hoisted on their own petard. But I am horrified that the national government has so much influence over Harvard. Liberals ought to be made to draw the proper lesson from this affair: that centralized power is always a threat to liberty...
Murdoch wrote directly to FCC chairman Reed Hundt, declaring his "personal anguish" at the whole affair. But he backed his tears with bullets. That same day his Washington attorney, William Reyner Jr., also wrote to Hundt, at one point accusing NBC parent General Electric of having engaged "in a pattern of illegal activity, including criminal fraud, antitrust and anticompetitive conduct." He listed a series of examples, including GE's 1992 guilty plea on four counts of fraud associated with a sale of aircraft engines to Israel. These sins, Reyner continued, called into question "NBC's basic qualifications to continue...
...lifelong love affair, it didn't start well. When the young designer, scrambling to finish a collection in 1954, was told that an actress named Hepburn was calling to see him, he assumed it was Katharine. The ingenue from Hollywood had wanted her costumes for Sabrina to be made by Paris' reigning couturier, Cristobal Balenciaga, but the great man turned her away. The rejected muse then turned to another, younger designer, and it was rare affection at first sight. Eventually she called him her greatest friend, almost like a psychiatrist. He referred to her as a sister. Audrey Hepburn...
Understandably, journalists resort to writing about the people and the things that seem to be important in their time, like Gina Grant and O.J. Simpson. And it should not be ignored that these are in fact important and provocative issues: after all, the Simpson affair is probably the biggest and most influential trial in legal history. The question of whether or not a high school student convicted of killing her mother should attend Harvard is certainly a question that affects Harvard students and faculty quite strongly...