Word: courteousness
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...fact that Clarence Thomas is both black and a conservative. It is harder still to match the image of Thomas offered by Anita Hill -- of a boss who pressured and humiliated her -- with the picture offered by friends and co-workers, who portray him as a model of courteous and respectful relations with women. The bedeviling paradox that emerged last week was this: How could Thomas have been one man to the world and another to Hill...
...Bush's educational goals, including the idea of school Choice, and he is using his soft-spoken salesmanship to market them to Congress and the American public. The role is the most challenging yet for the man named by Bush as Secretary of Education last December, whose mild and courteous demeanor masks a high-octane ambition. His goal is to transform the Department of Education, which Ronald Reagan once pledged to abolish, from a backwater operation in the shadow of the Air and Space Museum into one of Washington's leading domestic agencies...
While most of the respondents considered the dining hall staff members to be courteous and friendly, and commented favorably on the cleanliness of the dining halls, students were critical of the overall quality of the food...
OUTSIDE THE CASTLE--While capturing for posterity the arborial bliss of the planting of Freedom Tree II, a Crimson photographer was approached by members of the Lampoon. The ever-courteous 'Poonsters generously offered to pose with the sapling: "Want a picture of us giving the tree the finger...
...know that Harvard is facing a slight budget crunch, but things must be pretty bad if the dean of students is forced to make his business calls from a pay phone. In an anticlimactic denoument, The Crimson later learned that Epps had been courteous enough to return his calls from a conference he was attending at Tufts. The phones in the dean's office, we are assured, are working just fine...