Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Mobuto believes he is faithfully following Machiavelli's advice to an effective Prince--that it is better to be feared than to be loved...
...find out that Harvard is maybe possibly (I know! Nothing's been proved yet! Please don't sue me!) no better than Ivan Boesky, except that President Bok has a nice, all-American name like "Derek...
There's no better word to describe the Harvard field hockey team in its 2-1 victory over 13th-ranked Penn yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...four games this weekend. The Crimson showed improvement from last week's games. The passing and hitting were much better than they have been in the past...
...taut and stirring as A Theft was, The Bellarosa Connection is even better. Bellow here stands squarely on the ground that he conquered long ago: the dislocations -- wrenching, comic or both -- of being Jewish in America. Bellow's narrator, a man in his early 70s, never reveals his own name, but he engagingly -- and a bit smugly -- displays the trappings of his success: "I force myself to remember that I was not born in a Philadelphia house with 20- foot ceilings but began life as the child of Russian Jews from New Jersey." He had earned his mansion, plus...