Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...First-Year Caucus--a group that gainedcohesiveness with the entry of the Class of1998--was not yet ensconced in the bitter partisanstruggle being waged above. It had other things onits mind, from finding ways to give student groupsthe money they wanted to pushing for popularelections of council officers...
After a week of bitter infighting, proceduraldebates and calculated leaks of "secretdocuments," the proceedings finally came to thefloor of the council at its Sunday night meetingin its old Harvard Hall stomping grounds. Asdebate was about to get good, Philip R. Kaufman'98, backed by fellow first-years, moved to tablethe question: there was other business to attendto...
Admittedly, I am a little bitter that unlike my fellow students I will not be able to study abroad for even a semester. Is it that concentration requirements don't plague other students...
...Modernization" is the young Prime Minister's mantra. After Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, he waged a bitter fight to reform it, moving it away from its tired socialist roots and forcing it to embrace elements of Thatcherism. As Prime Minister, he has embarked on a mission to modernize Britain and its politics. The grand design is not entirely clear. "He's not an ideologist," says Oxford University political scientist David Marquand, "but he wants an ideology. In a kind of intuitive way he knows what he's against and perhaps what he is for." Blair...
...puts a bitter taste in my mouth," Sprengsaid. "We can't walk. We can't even watch ourfriends graduate...