Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshmen hungry for a Valentine's Day treat at the Union Dining Hall yesterday may have received more than they bargained for when they found a cheerful cow giving out free kisses at lunch and dinner...
...jury to find Steinberg guilty of "depraved indifference to human life." There certainly seemed to be evidence of that. After being pounded into unconsciousness, Lisa was left lying on a bathroom floor in the couple's Greenwich Village apartment for some twelve hours when Steinberg went out to dinner. Nussbaum testified that after his return, when she told him the girl could not be revived, he insisted they free-base cocaine before calling for help...
...dinner that evening, at a ranch nearby, Baker faces a snap quiz. "What's the capital of Tanzania, Dad?" says one of his stepsons...
...conservative, I dread being sucked into such debates (maybe that's why I try to make it a point to go to dinner just before the dining hall closes), because being a conservative heading into a political or social policy debate at Harvard is like leading the charge of the Light Brigade. You know you are going to be outgunned, possibly outwitted or, at the very least, shouted down, so the best you can do is hold your own and die honourably. If you try to show your liberal friends that you don't disagree that drastically with them...
This same allegation frequently comes from the staunch Republican power-types who are a bit disappointed when their fellow "fascist ally" (yours truly) seems to jump off the conservative bandwagon and join the liberal enemy when it counts most--at the dinner table. They can't understand why a so-called conservative would argue for things like the feminist critique of male-dominated society or the need to genuinely address and not simply pay lip service to the increasing social inequality of our nation, as manifested in the festering inner-city, the plagued family farm and the inhabited park bench...