Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minister John Major strode across the lawn of the rose garden behind 10 Downing Street and announced to a hastily assembled press conference that enough was enough. He had become weary, he declared, of "a small minority" that was disrupting his Conservative Party and undermining his position. With the bright summer sunshine streaming over his shoulder, Major threw down the gauntlet. Rather than wait until November for a possible challenge to his leadership--and endure months of politically damaging backbiting in between--he was resigning as head of the Tories and calling an immediate leadership election so that he could...
BILL DUVALL WANTS TO FIND PORN ON the Internet. He wants to so badly that he pays Stanford University graduate students to track it down for him. Those bright-eyed bounty hunters of smut are efficient, finding between five and 10 places a day that meet Duvall's single criterion: sexual explicitness. On a typical day last week, his free-lancers brought him the Internet addresses of computers that proffered bootleg images from Playboy, erotic bedtime stories and stag party-style X-rated video snippets. All of them went into a kind of address book that has well in excess...
...bright guy, works well in groups," saysOverseer Stephen B. Kay '56, another member ofthat committee. "I think people on the overseersare uniformly happy that he was re-elected. I knowI...
Pennypackers' central circular staircase is agreat place for congregating. And people do. "ThePack's" bright landing are full of people at allhours, and a four story beer funnel makes anappearance on its open stairwell once a year orso. Pennypacker's rooms are not massive, but theirquirky shapes offer a change of pace from thestandard Yard dorms...
...everything you've worked for, invested effort in and valued has been worth your while. I transferred to Harvard with the belief that my move across the Atlantic would be just another step on the yellow brick road to my future, another rung on the ladder to the bright mysterious unknown. I didn't know exactly where I was headed, but it seemed certain that my sense of direction was on target. I did not guess that I would find myself skidding out of control that year, struggling just to keep my eyes on the road...