Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the last four years, first as a staff writer, then (and now) as a columnist, and finally as the editor of this page, I have tried to contribute to some of this work. But my time at Harvard is nearly through, and this is the last column I will write for The Crimson, a little newspaper that has taken up an unreasonable amount of my time and energy (and that, it must also be said, I love dearly...
...city lashed out. Commentators complained that Tom's friends hadn't turned him in during the Mazatlan trip--"Portland, we have a problem," a columnist lamented. Prosecutors were even harsher. Five of the six people involved have now pleaded guilty, and because of mandatory-sentencing laws, most have received at least four years. Even Celia Reynolds, who reluctantly drove Tom and Ethan to and from a supermarket robbery (and somewhat less reluctantly took a share of the proceeds afterward) will spend a full two years in prison for her role...
...click on the link to the whole scene and discover or recall the context of the language. Part of what has kept Shakespeare alive in our society for so long is his eminent quotability in small catch-phrases. It is easy for a politician, a screenwriter or a columnist to manipulate the poet's words for her own purposes. But the genius of Shakespeare lies not just in the elegance of his language but also in his sympathetic understanding of human nature and his psychological depth, all of which are best understood in whole sonnets, whole scenes and entire plays...
...American Medical Association unpeeled a surprising new finding: Contrary to popular assumption, eating one egg a day does not significantly increase the risk of heart attack or stroke. The study essentially debunked the common train of thought that had given eggs a bum rap, explains TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. ?Scientists have known that eating eggs increases blood cholesterol, and they have also known that people with increased blood cholesterol face a greater risk of heart disease,? she says. But they jumped too quickly to conclude that eating eggs therefore increases heart disease...
Reports that the mega-successful new painkiller Celebrex has been linked to 10 deaths and 11 cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhage during its first three months should not lead to any hasty conclusions, warns TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. So far, it is unclear how the new data on deaths and severe reactions, first reported in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, is related to the drug, or whether other factors may be involved. Celebrex, the first of a new class of Cox-2 inhibitors to hit the U.S. market, has taken off nearly as explosively as Viagra did, with some...