Word: feud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would come to our campus for free. Ever here of the Nintendo Campus Challenge? Or the CBS Campus Tour? These are promotional entourages that tour the nation. The Nintendo tour is over, but the CBS tour, which sets up a carnival on campus and tapes soap opera and "Family Feud" parodies as well as giving away prizes, is still going on. They visited several Boston-area colleges this fall before heading south, but not Harvard...
...what might be called the John Donne principle of world affairs: no country is an island, entire of itself; every country is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. The "intercommunal" enmity between Greek and Turkish Cypriots has always been an extension of the regional feud between Greece and Turkey proper...
Dershowitz said in an interview yesterday that the escalating feud between his client, Farrow, and her estranged lover, Allen, is "a human tragedy" that "could've been avoided...
...Even short of a Desert Storm-scale operation, how can the deployment of multinational firepower be justified here and now when other peoples are also in mortal peril -- starving Somalis, say, or junta-persecuted Burmese? And if intrusion is justified, what force could conceivably sort out a vicious blood feud among hill folk who have helped write the book on guerrilla warfare...
...infotainment press is busy stoking the one-way feud. In April, just before Leno replaced Carson, Entertainment Weekly ran a cover story with Hall proclaiming, "I'm gonna kick Leno's ass"; this week the cover copy blares LENO GETS EVEN, and the Gibraltar-jawed comic stares out in a Raging Bull pose. The Washington Post's Tom Shales rags Leno for going "all ponderous and ! stony" and, bizarrely, for overloading his opening monologue with political humor. (Memo to Jay: Better do more 7-Eleven jokes. Memo to Tom: Pssst, it's an election year...