Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jessamyn A.S. Conrad '00, who was seated in the dining hall, agreed. "It's quite obvious to all who have eaten in Adams that there are too many people eating there to maintain the comfort of all eating there, especially those that live there.... Something must be done...
...students in the VES 23aar class are close in other ways. The course's structure allows students to devote much of their time to discussing individual ideas and critiquing each other's progress. Students say the personal nature of artistic expression makes openness and comfort crucial to such an endeavor...
...your next trek to see him in the wilds of a liberal arts school in Maine or the frat-heaven of your state university, make sure to conveniently pilfer a few articles of clothing and especially a well broken-in hat. Go to bed every night wrapped in the comfort of his Cape Cod Community College sweatshirt with the faint and wafting scent of his cologne...
...President Clinton?s actions do not meet the criteria of high crimes and misdemeanors. Republican disgust and frustration was everywhere. South Carolina firebrand Bob Inglis accused his guest Schlesinger ?- perhaps the most respected historian in America ?- of having "a great deal of sophistication but very little common sense." Cold comfort for committee chair Henry Hyde, then, that Monday?s Supreme Court ruling would allow him to call Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey. Hyde said he despaired for "the rule of law". It was a comment on Slick Willie?s slipperiness; it might equally describe how Hyde's own committee is falling...
Alex, who says he is not gay but "95% girl," chose to leave. Dozens of classmates--biological boys included--argued that the school was violating Alex's rights and donned hair bows in solidarity. But the protest was little comfort to the teen. "It really took a lot of guts for me to be confident enough to be who I am, and then this happens," he says. Alex, whose future plans include home schooling and a sex-change operation, says he originally went to private school to get a better education. This wasn't the lesson he expected...