Word: decentering
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Cornell number-two tailback Scott Oliaro had a pretty decent season Saturday in the Big Red's 41-31 victory over Yale in New Haven. The junior rumbled, rambled and rolled for a league-record 288 yards rushing on 35 carries, a school-record 395 all-purpose yards and four scores...
...poor souls who once soared at the top of the Harvard social hierarchy and earned the loathing of decent students now deserve only our deepest sympathy. After the Inter-Club Council (the adults who make club decisions) banned kegs from the clubs, barred alcohol from punching events and even proposed to ban guests from the nine all-male institutions, clubbies across campus could be seen dabbing tears away with their silk pocket squares...
...fact was that Senators and the American public seemed as impressed with Souter's intelligence as they were with his image as a shy, decent man who likes old cars, black-and-white television sets and the Boston Red Sox. During the confirmation hearings, Souter, 51, slept on an extra bed at the apartment of his mentor, New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman; soon he will settle into a modest one-bedroom apartment that the Justice-to-be found, with Rudman's help, within walking distance of the court. Souter's few sticks of furniture and more numerous stacks of books...
...discoveries of the two doctors--who worked together at Harvard's Peter Brent Brigham hospital in the 1950s--was described by the Nobel Assembly as "crucial for those tens of thousands of severely ill patients who either can be cured or be given a decent life when other treatment methods are without success...
...Britain's middle classes, is at his fiercest in showing how the proper bourgeoisie reacts to, and is repeatedly bested by, the convention-scorning Phelans. The story's most intense drama is generated not by the search for the killer, but by the question of whether the one decent-seeming Phelan, an amiable schoolboy, is for real and will stay that...