Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Closer to home, we have the phenomena of Harvard professors knocking out bestsellers. Two recent books, Professor James Kugel's The Bible as it Was and Professor Marjorie Garber's Dog Love prove that Harvard professors have what it takes to get on to the bestseller lists. Meanwhile, rumors are still floating around about the seven-figure advance for economics Professor Gregory Mankiw's Macroeconomics textbook that is being used in several of Harvard's economic classes this tern...
...mocked for blurring the distinction between Republican and Democrat and who was ridiculed for realizing a Republican platform--like tax cuts and reduced government--more effectively than the two Republican presidents who preceded him has articulated forcefully and, it seems, effectively, a plan for bringing this nation closer to its liberal ideals. In the President's own words: "We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say government is the answer. My fellow Americans, we have found a third way. We have the smallest government in 35 years...
...Both of our one and two players have beaten their opponents in the past year," Wyant said. "Our number four [freshman Deepak Abraham] lost in five games and the number five [senior Jeff Blumberg] match went to four games. The match was closer than the score, and 6-3 is relatively close anyway...
...with a teenager." Still, Giles maintains that Monica was "obsessed with sex. She went to Washington with the intent to have sex with the President." And, he charged, Monica had a "pattern of twisting facts, especially to enhance her own version of her self-image." Or, perhaps, to get closer to what she wanted. During her senior year at Lewis & Clark, Lewinsky allegedly drafted a fake letter to Bleiler on the college's letterhead suggesting that the school might offer him a job. At the bottom of the letter she forged a college employee's signature. The letter was returned...
...Your personality account, like your entire coverage, is vague. I'm not sure what to make of an anonymous student who says that Elster was "very good at making people feel uncomfortable." I question the appropriateness of choosing to use no character appraisal from any friend of Elster's closer than his fine arts professor...