Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics will point to Gore's youth and to his "patrician background" as making him unfit to be president. Yet "patrician backgrounds" hardly affected the ability of FDR and JFK to govern on behalf of the less fortunate members of our society. Those who bring up Gore's age do so simply because they have nothing more substantial to raise against him, since, at 39, he already possesses 11 years of Congressional experience and a substantive legislative record...
...appropriate rules for its dormitories and to require that students meet both. College and legal standards as far as possible. In the case of kegs, I find it hard to justify permitting them in dormitories which are essentially 100 percent populated by students below the legal drinking age. Kegs are almost by definition a part of large group activities, not private activities restricted to a single room or suite. One could well argue that we should be prohibiting all alcohol from freshman dorms, and we have, in fact, considered that possibility. That we have not done so is in part...
...Greeks held so firmly to their past that we forget how far back they had to reach for it. It is easy to lose sight of the long centuries -- there were eight of them -- that separate the heroes of the Trojan War from the age of Socrates and Aeschylus, which paid homage to them. Much of what lay between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that...
...Physiologist Susan B. Roberts of Tufts University studied 18 infants during their first year of life: six of their mothers were thin; twelve were overweight. Roberts and her colleagues measured how many calories the babies took in and how many they burned off. By three months of age, six of the babies with overweight mothers were generating 21% less energy than the rest. At one year, the six had become overweight, although they ate no more than the thinner babies...
Though most of the clubs at Princeton are non-selective and consequently non-discriminatory, the age-old tradition of the eating clubs has tended to discourage minorities from joining...