Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Candidate statement: "The university has been a big plus for me because it supported me for my entire youth years [his father was a custodian at Kirkland House]. Students should vote for me because of great ties to Harvard and a background in government and community affairs...
...loses him.) But Gwyneth turned us all into cynics with that miserable awards schtick she pulled last year. At the Golden Globes, the SAGS and the Oscars, she cried through each one of her speeches and added a new traumatized family member to her thank-you list. Her father, her cousin, her mother, her dear friend "Mr. Affleck," her brother's nephew's toddler's girlfriend... The boo-hoo hooligan tried to convince us that the dumb piece of gold was the cure for all her family members' illnesses! (Too bad it wasn't a cure for that dress that...
...Lucha, it turned out was actually the reincarnation of a badass sorcerer known as "Dark Schneider," who, with a mere kiss from Yoko was unleashed from his pubescent body, ready to conquer the world. After an impressive tour de force, where Dark Schneider proved his might to Yoko's father, a head priest, another kiss from Yoko returned him to his diminutive state...
...centuries ago, Adam Smith, the founding father of capitalism, reminded us that the wealth of any nation could be measured by the number of people who live in poverty. The same can be said of Harvard. At a time when university administrators and alumni donors are busy celebrating the accumulation of great wealth, we would do well to remember that several thousand workers in our midst share neither the wealth nor the self-indulgence it so easily inspires...
...McCourt writes with the same mix of humor and sadness that sustained him through Angela's Ashes, but this time a sharper edge of anger and resentment accompany his stories. The maturing McCourt loses the playfulness and innocence of childhood, replacing it with his father's fondness for drink, an acute social awareness, and a searing sense of ambition...