Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about 40 people that I have sponsored fundraisers for--there's circuit of fundraisers across America," Sloan says "We discuss issues that relate to national politics...
...spiritual cog for the Crimson was senior Steve Kelts, the team captain. Although he wasn't a consistent top performer for the team, finishing in the team's top three only once all season, Kelts brought to the squad a degree of mettle rarely seen on the cross country circuit...
...diversity-crusaders so much as their methodology. I too would like the Harvard faculty to look a little bit less like the Elks club from some New Hampshire hamlet. But I am not so bent on this notion of diversity that I would be willing to short-circuit strictly meritocratic hiring procedures in order to bring it about...
...Breyer also carved out a course area for himself in economic regulation.) As a judge he has shown little interest in such issues as civil rights, privacy or the First Amendment, which have provided most of the fireworks on the high court for the past four decades. The First Circuit of Appeals in Boston, where he sits, is also one that receives few high-profile cases. For instance, since none of the states in his circuit has the death penalty, Breyer has never ruled on the issue. On almost every question of consequence on which he has pronounced himself...
...Rivers depicts herself thrashing through her husband's well-stocked medicine cabinet after learning that he has killed himself in a Philadelphia hotel room. Later, still bereaved but completely broke, she appears on Hollywood Squares and, less than two months after Edgar is buried, returns to the stand-up circuit. (Sample joke: "My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at + Neiman Marcus . . . That way I'd visit him every day.") All this reactive, forced levity doesn't sit well with Melissa, who throws tantrums and winds up in the arms of an abusive...