Word: dears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of meeting the challenge of crew, my classmates busily build their resumes. They live for their dear student publications, involve themselves in the pretense of Harvard student government, organize themselves in self-billed nerd organizations, pass countless hours gorging their minds in Cabot Library and participate in other nice and pleasant self-improvement activities...
...their culture and their people, minority students at elite schools are often overprotective of their experience. For fear of saying the wrong thing, they say nothing at all. These are private matters, I am told, not to be discussed with strangers. To the meek who hold their image so dear, the story of Joe Razo--though compelling--is a messy tar-baby that is best left untouched. Still, I touch...
...case involving four protesters who set a flag afire in front of the Seattle Post Office, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein found the Flag Protection Act invalid. Rothstein ruled, "Burning the flag as an expression of political dissent . . . does not jeopardize the freedom which we hold dear." Her decision is headed for the nine Justices: the flag law provides for expedited appeal to the Supreme Court, which could hear the case as early...
...Last fall Washington Times gossip writer Charlotte Hays heard that actress Kelly McGillis, who had signed for the season at the Shakespeare Theater at the Folger, was pregnant and would leave months early. "The accuracy of the rumor was obvious from the way the Folger reacted. They said, 'Oh dear, she'll have to talk to you.' " Even though McGillis didn't call back, Hays confidently went ahead, and the item was soon confirmed...
...specific meetings, memos, dates, names, Reagan's mind was pretty much a blank. General Vessey? "Oh dear, I could ask for help here. The name I know is very familiar." (It should be: he was Reagan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.) Adolfo Calero? Reagan could not recall the most famous of the contra leaders even after he was shown a picture of the two of them together at a White House gathering. He had somehow missed the fact that McFarlane pleaded guilty in 1988 to withholding information from Congress. Shown the section of the Tower commission report...