Word: ago
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John Tower too went through, not long ago, the humiliation of having his private life made public. Yet that was because Tower, like Gary Hart and Dan Quayle before him, was in line for a position in which discretion is imperative; the Secretary of Defense's self-control is a matter of national welfare. All that is at stake in the Boggs case is dreams. We do not care whether our car mechanic, say, is a philanderer, so long as he does the job that he is paid to do; so too with our athletes. We pay our baseball players...
Athletes, of course, are hardly the only victims of a rapid and rapacious desire to bring icons down to size. Mike Tyson is merely learning lessons about the price of celebrity that Liz Taylor and Mick Jagger were forced to learn many years ago. Yet sportsmen belong to more innocent kids than do movie stars or musicians, and to adults who wish to be more innocent kids again. Tyson, moreover, appears in the ring for only a few minutes every few months, and Cabinet members work mostly behind closed doors; both are ultimately judged by professionals and peers. Boggs' skills...
...other hand, every new term, however inelegant, is given the treatment that long ago distinguished the OED from all competitors. This dictionary does not merely give etymologies, pronunciations and definitions; it also provides a word's earliest known appearance in print and uses quotations to illustrate the context in which the word has been used and all shifts of meaning to which it has been subjected. Hence AIDS (another lamentable addition to the lexicon) is defined and then traced back to its presumptive print debut, in the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report of Sept...
...told me three years ago that I would go from three to one to four, I would have said `God, I'd be miserable that year. I'd hate hockey...
...formed 13 years ago to address the cultural, educational, political and social needs of Asian Americans on campus: culturally, to celebrate the richness of our heritage; educationally, to discover our identities; politically, to obtain the rights to which we are entitled as human beings and as minorities are being denied; socially, to develop ties with those with whom we share commonalities. Our focus is the Asian American community, and we have and always will encourage all Harvard-Radcliffe students to explore its many facets...