Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this year, in response to a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and a number of private citizens, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals halted a seven-year custom in downtown Pittsburgh. The seasonal Nativity scene, erected by the Holy Name Society of the Pittsburgh diocese, was barred from the Allegheny County courthouse, where it had adorned the grand staircase of the building's rotunda. Also banned was an 18-ft. menorah displayed a block away at the front of the City-County building and sponsored by Chabad, the national organization of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews. "The city...
...final season is Princeton's Demer Holleran, two-time defending intercollegiate champion, and five freshmen, all from Brooklyn Heights. It has been called the best recruiting year for any team in the history of collegiate women's squash. Four of the freshmen were ranked in the junior circuit...
...postcard design possibilities are innumerable; "Mem Hotel, an Intimate Lodging in the Tradition of the Core Curriculum" and "Wish You Were Here in Our Gothic Paradise" come immediately to mind. Within a few years, maybe it could get put on the Club Med circuit...
...Holy Court's decisions as moderate and progressive. Boiled cat intestine in their judicial system is probably the American equivalent of a one year suspended sentence at the Betty Ford Clinic. Besides Pointdexter and North still have one great advantage over their Iranian counterparts: There is no lecture circuit in Iran...
Cable at Harvard, if it ever occurs, will not just be another excuse to avoid studying. According to Continental Cable, there are many possibilities with closed circuit, rang- ing from link-ups with MIT to satellitecoverage of events in Washington to live coverageof visiting dignitaries speaking at the KennedySchool of Government. And Alfred Pandiscio,associate director of telecommunicationsengineering services at Harvard says there is thepossibility that Harvard itself will be able tooriginate programs of its own. Perhaps one dayHarvard audiences will be able to watch housedrama productions, improvisational comedy shows,or the Crimson nightly news on T.V. without everleaving their...