Word: coate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colleges, Harvard probably would have never made it into the top ten, let alone been first. It's not unusual for the temperature to be a bitter five degrees out, and the wind makes it feel like 20 below. So all bundled up with hat and scarf, gloves and coat, you glumly trudge off towards the Science Center for your 10:00 Core. And, there on the street, some guy walks by wearing shorts. You pause and rub your eyes. Worried that your blood will freeze if you stand still for too long you head off towards your destination, muttering...
...inside the country. His army and security forces are large and efficient. Despite spasms of discontent, like the riot last August that helped unleash the rafter exodus, there is nothing like a Tiananmen brewing. And unlike many similar leaders, he has surrounded himself not with cronies and coat holders but with the best and the brightest his country has to offer. He may be constrained by a terrible economy and his enduring faith in the failed ideology that produced it, but Fidel is not finished yet. The trick he is trying to master, however, is a neat trick indeed: modifying...
...richest colony. They designed grand theaters and government buildings, using the same proportional guidelines that gave Paris such remarkable balance in size and form, though French liberals of the time groused over ``la folie des grandeurs.'' From 1945 until recently, however, Hanoi barely received as much as a fresh coat of paint. Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam was too busy, running first the French out of the North and then the Americans out of the South. Neglect reduced many of the great ocher villas to crumbling ghost houses, often with electric wires dangling from broken windows...
...political note: Granola types, who wouldn't sport a fur coat if their tempeh and grain medley depended on it, regularly hit the scene in these conspicuous coils of Real Fur. As Alexander Barylski '96, proud Hat wearer for four years, commented, "No one's spray-painted these Hats, yet." These Hats can do no wrong...
...favors and donations provoked growing scrutiny last week of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Gingrich think tank that seems to churn as much cash as ideas. Declared Ellen Miller, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, ``It's just another way in which Newt Gingrich's coat has many pockets...