Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What The Crimson fails to mention is that it was in the days of the legendary "Gold Coast" dormitories--luxurious buildings built to accommodate Harvard's wealthiest students--that the seeds of the Harvard House system were first sown. President A. Lawrence Lowell recognized that a great evil lurked in the rise of these private dorms; he dubbed them "an enemy to democracy." As early as 1913, Lowell authorized the construction of new freshman houses along the river. Students were eventually drawn away from the Gold Coast dorms...
Publications from The Crimson--"We have reason to fear, growing homophobia from coast to coast"--to The New York Times, which wrote of the "menace and hatred that homosexuals still face in being honest in the United State," have followed this tack. While it is certainly just to condemn Shepard's attackers, along with any other brutes who would so grossly violate the basic respect due all people (whatever their sexual orientation), it is disingenuous to decry Americans in general as "bigots" or "homophobes," suggesting a senseless hatred of homosexuals. To do so is to assert that there...
...eight teams in the Northeast traveled to Blodgett Pool for the two-day Northern Division Tournament, the qualifier for the Eastern Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament...
...undocumented influx at 100,000 a year. (In comparison, the 1990 U.S. Census estimates there are 2.3 million American residents of Chinese origin.) What is certain is that for reasons both global and local, the illegals, their transporters and their employers are forgoing the boomtowns of the West Coast and homing in on New York City...
...which he was still tinkering with in late summer, and all the publication hubbub to follow, Wolfe finds himself with the unaccustomed luxury of free time on his hands. He has filled some of it by accompanying his son Tommy, an accomplished squash player, to tournaments along the East Coast. "I used to play with him," Wolfe says of the son who is 55 years younger, "until I noticed him setting up shots for me. In aging athletes, the legs go first...