Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Student centers are the crossroads for both faculty and students--where both groups stop at cafes to eat and talk, post notes on a common bulletin board and hold talks in side rooms. At Harvard all of this interaction is supposed to be happening at the Houses, but in reality, little of it does...
LOUISE DAY HICKS--The controversial Hicks is one of the key characters in J. Anthony Lukas' Pulitzer Prize-winning book about Boston's busing crisis, Common Ground. Lukas describes Hicks, the school committee member who marshaled Boston's anti-busing forces, as a "huge marshmallow of a woman in her tentlike dresses...
...image unjustly diminished too many great performances. But fears about a widespread drug problem are entirely justified: the use of performance- enhancing agents is far more common than the number of disqualifications would imply. Dr. Robert Voy, chief medical officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee, reports that no-penalty testing in 1983-84 found that 20% to 50% of U.S. athletes were doping. Current formal testing in the U.S. turns up positives at a rate of 2% to 3%. Athletes' understanding of how to beat the tests by using either extra drugs that mask the performance-enhancing ones...
...curse him and whom he in turn used to vilify. But this time there was warmth and friendship, and the President was fantasizing. Suppose this old world were subjected to an extraterrestrial threat, he said. Then people would band together, forget petty differences and grievances, and face the common enemy...
Quayle's role has been anything but "traditional." Protest signs reading VERY PRETTY, BUT CAN HE TYPE? are almost as common along the Quayle trail as those reading CHICKEN HAWK. His wife Marilyn, a lifelong Quayle handler, told reporters her husband tries to reread Plato's Republic once a year. She sounded like one of the oldtime MGM publicity men who, whenever a starlet got into trouble, churned out a press release announcing her enrollment in correspondence courses at the Sorbonne. Ridicule is as contagious in politics as it is in show business: even a few Bush aides privately call...