Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle course. That would mean putting off the actual trial but allowing pre-trial "discovery," including questioning of the principals and potential witnesses. But it is not clear that it would help Clinton much. Discovery can be more intrusive than a trial; Jones' lawyers might be inclined to dig into peripheral matters such as other sexual incidents involving the President. And even if depositions were taken under seal, it is unlikely that even a sealed deposition of the President would actually remain secret...
...free tuneups in 12 South Korean cities, and some nurses and hospital workers set up tents offering free blood-pressure checks and services for the elderly. The confederation also promised that thousands of striking workers would hit the streets with brooms in a cleanup campaign, while others would help dig out remote villages snowed in by a recent storm. Throughout the spreading strike, union workers at subways, phone companies and cargo docks have been directed to stay on the job for fear of raising the people's ire; hospital workers also have remained to staff emergency and operating rooms. Home...
...fossil hunters studying evolution, Java has always been a good place to dig. Its equatorial climate makes it home to countless species, and periodic land bridges placed it in the middle of the migratory autobahn between Asia and Australia, making it the perfect spot to study how animals spread. Since the 1890s, numerous fossils of Homo erectus have been found on the island, but scientists were particularly intrigued by more than a dozen partial skulls found near the villages of Ngandong and Sambungmacan in the 1930s and 1970s. The skulls had unusually large braincases, and so were estimated...
...Lone Star A skeleton, unearthed after a 30-year rest, leads sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) on a deeply disturbing dig into his own past and that of a Texas border town that turns out to be a lot less somnolent than it looks. Sam manages to recover a lost love (shiningly portrayed by Elizabeth Pena) but the countywide network of corruption eventually snags them both. Writer-director John Sayles is a subtle, patient craftsman; he knows that in good fiction, history has to be more than a throwaway line. Sayles also has a gift for showing, without bloodily melodramatizing...
Still, the pervasiveness of a cappella at Harvard, the existence of a veritable a cappella culture, has fascinated me since I got here. So I started to dig. I scourged the depths of the a cappella world in search of some explanation to the peculiar phenomenon, some understanding of what makes a cappella tick. Eventually I found out about the complexity of scripting an a cappella performance, the countless hours spent on things like choreography and "patter." I found out about the dual role of the annual Freshman Jam as both an initiation of a new audience...