Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world.' "Her repeated, obsessive references to her reproductive surgeon betray the narrator's deepest concern without, apparently, her being aware of the disclosure," says TIME's Paul Gray. "Whatever Dr. Loquesto was supposed to do for her somehow did not work, in a way she doesn't explain. She is 40 and childless, and Hecht has subtly grounded all these remarkably funny and engaging stories in the fundamental sadness of mortality...
...placed a phone call over the summer to ask why I wasn't admitted, whether or not I would be and when they would let me know. Only sometime in August did FOP actually accept me. On the Phone, I was met with an Apologetic student who tried to explain that it might help if I sent in an enthusiastic letter as others had done. When I asked her what FOP's criteria were, she explained that they were looking for a geographically and ethnically diverse pool who demonstrated a real enthusiasm" for participating. Letter? Enthusiasm? Was this a Harvard...
Easier to explain is the effect White has had on the Packers and Green Bay. In his first year with the team, the defense went from No. 23 in the league to No. 2. "Other teams had to double- and triple-team Reggie," says Favre. "He also totally transformed the locker room." White's influence is not unlike that of Willie Stargell on the "We Are Fam-a-lee" Pittsburgh Pirates, except that the sounds in the clubhouse aren't disco but gospel. The other day, Favre took a ribbing from White after he asked if the gospel chorus some...
...stop talking about how much the actress playing the matrimonial lawyer resembles his Cousin Edna, the one who ran off with the sheet-rock installer. In this situation, you don't need a citation from Oliver Wendell Holmes. You only need an usher. The usher can explain to Torture Voice that he has every right to carry on a conversation, but he'll have to do it out on the sidewalk...
...computer science," Lori J. Park '96 says. "I didn't take C.S. 50 so I only met [Seltzer] when I was applying to be a C.S. 50 [teaching fellow]. I felt pretty frustrated with C.S. at the time. I told this to [Seltzer], and she took time to explain things to me [and] have me attend her research group...