Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Naggar, an Egyptian who was formerly deputy director of research at the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development. But less gossipy flaws have been at least as damaging to the U.N.'s effectiveness and standing: bureaucratic confusion, duplication of effort, wasteful spending and lack of coordination--either among the alphabet soup of special bodies (around 100, according to one tally) or with the so-called central U.N. in New York...
...shot, two gravestones, a smile. The trial can be reduced to these emblems. Or to entries in a specialized gazetteer: Rockingham, Bundy, Brentwood. A bestiary: barking dog, white Bronco, blond Kato. Names on a list: Marcia and Johnnie, Darden and Shapiro, Fung, Lee, Scheck, Ito, Fuhrman. A weird alphabet: DNA, O.J., A.C., L.A.P.D., the N word. All are signposts to a greater geography, one uneasily contained on the premises of the California Superior Court. Television viewers saw the proceedings and were captured by the legal dramatics; and yet there were always hints of unseen details and untold tales...
Baseball star Hank Aaron told the class of 1995 that they have to "get to work learning the rest of the alphabet" now that they have earned an A.B. from Harvard and Radcliffe...
Still, we shouldn't entirely omit academics from the lady's Greek life. As one sorority president pointed out, academics is one of Kappa Alpha Theta's "three aims," along with slumber parties and memorizing the Greek alphabet...
Marta Rivas '96 wrote the alphabet belching message in the free spirit of the night. "That was a lot of fun," she said. "I actually put up that message about belching your way through the alphabet to scare people away." Although she did rake in responses from her charming ad, she ended up with a date by responding to someone else's. "I responded to someone who said that he liked to watch the Simpson's, sit around and make fun of people," Rivas said laughing. "So I have a date to have a TV-dinner with...