Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduates, we were constricted by parietal rules. We wore skirts to classes (except in Cambridge blizzards and when the oil shortage became acute) and hats and gloves to teas. We never smoked on the street (the only place you can, now, as one classmate has pointed out). The college food was terrible, running to all-white fish and potato and cauliflower meals, and Halloween salads of shredded carrots and raisins. Sweet sherry was the beverage of choice for fancy functions...
...There were not droves of Harvard students trying to get a glimpse of the Patriots," says Gary W. Farneti '71, captain of the Harvard football team. "It was a non-event. Except for the football players who met some of the Patriots, it did not alter life at Harvard...
...kids is material poverty, so if we give the family more money for housing and food, things will turn out better for the kids. The reality is that despite 30 years of this effort, there is no evidence whatsoever that [this] has a positive effect on kids at all, except for cases of gross malnutrition...
...wisdom. Richie's first new album in 10 years is also a rather slumberous affair, one whose title, Louder than Words, belies its content. This is a soft, quiet album. The first song, Piece of Love, does have a deep, engaging bass groove, but few moments on this CD--except the wonderful cascade of jazz that closes out the song Lovers at First Sight--really hook us. The talented Richie can do more--remember Easy and Three Times a Lady? Those songs were slow too, but they had a casual charm Richie's new material could use more...
...trust in the hard way, for little has come to me except in the hard way." --Senator Bob Dole...