Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world of identity politics and absolutes, Suzie Miller '99 is pretty sure what she likes. Athletes who get the job done on and off the court, progressive Republicans (that includes potential presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole) and a broad perspective on life are all up Miller's alley, although she hates to pigeonhole herself...
...League championships and a historic moment last March, when Miller sank a three-pointer with 46 seconds on the clock to clinch the women's basketball team's unprecedented upset of top-seeded Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. But the Crimson guard/forward and off-court pre-med says the moment, which immortalized her in Harvard sports history, was just that. A moment...
...passionate about her first days at theCollege--she recalls listening to streetperformers from her Matthews Hall window seat--asshe is about her future career in medicine, Millersays she is eager to begin a life that will nolonger include daily court time...
...rare use of the bully pulpit, Rudenstine heads a nationwide coalition of 62 university presidents calling for maintaining diversity in higher education, following the Supreme Court's Hopwood decision restricting the use of race as a factor in admission...
...wasn't exactly impeachment, but President Clinton has finally been punished for his wrongdoing in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled Clinton was in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. Perhaps more than anything, the ruling was a victory for common sense and the sanctity of the English language. The line between truth and falsehood--so obvious to most of the American people despite the efforts of the president and his legal team--has finally been affirmed by an official voice. April...