Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students know the houses do not provide a common space, and the fact that my keycard will not give me access to my friends' houses reminds me of that. So do interhouse restrictions. Moreover, I have seen randomization dilute house character bit by bit. With the gradual dissipation of that character, houses have also been less likely to reach out to non-resident students who used to share the interests of specific communities with a base in the house. The houses cannot compensate for the lack of community feeling at the College; at the most, they offer 13 disparate communities...
Most career civil servants like Tripp, especially those trusted enough to work in the White House, are ferociously competent and unrelentingly discreet. They often stay for decades, and they keep their mouth shut. Tripp was different. She was seen as a schoolmarm, a bit obsessed with improprieties she saw around her. She once turned in an Army reservist for "petty wrongdoing," according to the Washington Post, and consequently got the man fired...
...together,' which is obviously a load of crap, and she ate it up," says the friend. "And she got hurt a number of times. She'd say, 'What the hell am I doing with this married guy?'" She talked to a Beverly Hills therapist "quite a bit" and cried often. "She's a pretty fragile person, just emotionally fragile," her friend says. "She was not a depressed person, but it's just that she was pretty sensitive." Stephen Enghouse, a self-described classmate and friend, wondered aloud last week if she has been concocting the whole sordid saga involving...
What gives this the overtone of Greek tragedy is how utterly avoidable it was, if the President had exercised the slightest bit of restraint. Already given a lot of slack by voters who believed he was an adulterer but elected him anyway, the President had only to comply with the minimal standard of presidential marital conduct: Don't have sex in the White House with a woman not your wife (no one thought to add "intern"). In these sexually perilous times, we all know lawyers and businessmen who won't meet in a hotel room with a colleague...
Tripp does lay it on a bit thick: Defending her allegations against cries of conspiracy, she writes: ?Because I have chosen the path of truth, I have been vilified by spokesmen for the administration I proudly serve as a political appointee.? The Pentagon staffer can hardly be said to have ?proudly served? the Clinton administration, given her frequent contact with Ken Starr and plans for a tell-all book à la Gary Aldrich. But Tripp does defend the friend she lost when those tapes went public: Lewinsky was ?a bright, caring, generous soul -- one who has made poor choices...