Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success of his Iliad, published six years ago, seems to him to confirm a long-held belief: "I think in this channel-surfing age people are famished for stories, for vivid accounts of humans who wrestled with their destinies and the gods. Homer is so inclusive and encyclopedic that he can relieve us of ourselves for a while." Fagles recalls a day during his long labors on the Iliad when he was standing in line at a Princeton, New Jersey, bank. "I suddenly thought, 'Don't these people know there's a war going on?'" The Trojan War, of course...
...also co-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, said yesterday the reported value of the debt was exaggerated "by orders of magnitude," with the reported number being much closer to the cost of publishing an issue than to the magazine's debt. But Peimer did confirm the publication's financial troubles, first reported in the Harvard Independent...
Crimson President Todd F. Braunstein '97 declined to comment, saying only that he could not confirm or deny Crimson involvement in the raid...
...Council appears to unanimously favor Marshall's nomination and will probably confirm her next Wednesday in a noon meeting, Kelly-Gay said after the hearing...
...comment," Wrinn said. "We just confirm that an alum went here and provide a class year--the kind of information that appears in a directory...