Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are those of you who might find my enthusiasm for Harvard slightly exaggerated, and I don't cast Harvard as an institution without many imperfections. But, what I do acknowledge--as I'm sure many of you, current and past first-year alike will as well--is that the experiences which you have had at Harvard far exceeded any you might have anticipated...
...always does, that he wants to "see how it looks" on the Senate floor, he isn't talking about the shape of a specific bill as much as its whip count. He believes in what emerges from the day's horse trading; his vision is the shadow cast by compromise...
CASHING A REALITY CHECK Earthy-voiced troubadour TRACY CHAPMAN has long cast herself as a rootsy folk heroine. Trouble is, she's always preferred to keep her distance from real-life record-buying folk. In concerts, even the most ardent acclaim left her stonefaced and unmoved. Much of her time was spent holed up in her San Francisco mansion. Fans eventually repaid the favor: Chapman's last two albums sank with nary a trace. Well, the reality check has finally arrived. Chapman now reads fan mail aloud in concerts. The new style is helping: last week her latest album...
...TIME TO KILL (July 12). John Grisham's update of To Kill a Mockingbird, about a black man on trial for killing a white rapist, looks like an earnest debate in unyielding close-up. The cast is led by three smart stars (Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey), so for now we'll give it a pass...
...would beat gargantuan odds--Alison's alcoholism, her affair with an N.F.L. sex addict--and find their way back into each other's hearts. This year Billy and Alison have been ripped asunder for so long we wouldn't care if they took vows of celibacy and joined the cast of Saved By the Bell...