Word: exited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...detective stories are escape fantasies. Clockers, one of the toughest and grittiest novels of the past few years, is no-exit reality. Richard Price, a film scriptwriter whose much praised first novel was The Wanderers, hung out with drug cops and drug dealers for two years, he says, listening to the talk and watching the action. A white, middle-class reader, from a neighborhood where people don't duck when they see a police car, has no business saying whether Price has got things right. But the book sounds right; it rings true. Cheap wine, the kind you drink...
...doctor's public concerns about job stress and his televised throwing up into the lap of Japan's Prime Minister have underscored persistent questions about the President's health. There was even the wild media speculation earlier this year that Bush would cite health reasons to make a dramatic exit from his re- election bid, opening the contest to the cadre of younger Republicans waiting in the wings...
...probably walked in and out of the Yard through Dexter Gate 1000 times. Everyone knows the Charles Eliot inscription on the way in--"Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--but I'd bet I'm one of a handful of Harvard students who have memorized the inscription above the exit--"Depart to Serve Better Thy Country And Thy Kind...
...Harkin (D-Iowa) received $1500 in Harvard support despite his March exit from the race--including $500 from Biochemistry Professor Emeritus John T. Edsall. Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul E. Tsongas received only single $300 gift from a Harvard employee. And Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) took in $500, including a $250 contribution from Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe...
...adjunct program at Duke allows the university to provide teaching positions for spouses who might not be qualified for full faculty positions. The option doesn't exit at most Ivy League institution, and that gives Duke a clear advantage in rataining faculty members like Schor...