Word: fittingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Since 1956 this great building has suffered the ugly indignity of truncation," wrote Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in an e-mail message. "Is it not a fitting end to the century and to the Campaign that Memorial Hall should be restored to its proper glory?"
Fitting the rare offensive explosion, the goalthat started it all was the rarest of scores forthe Crimson--a power play goal. Harvard had notconverted on its previous 29 power play attempts.Tomassoni had tried every possible combination ofplayers and schemes, with different units actuallyplaying entirely different power play formations.
Kent's music is often marked by melancholy, like Radiohead or The Cure, but they played with such spirit as to make it equally life-affirming. The epic seven-minute-and-forty-seven-second "747" was a fitting song to close on. Markus Mustonen, the drummer, began the song by...
To get within camera range, Senator Bob Smith changed his seat from the third row to the second. The neatest desk belonged to Lott, fitting for a man who presses his shirts after they come back from the laundry. He's so efficient he called for a 15-min. break...
Two digits. That's all. Just two lousy digits. 1957, they should have written, not 57. 1970 rather than 70. Most important, 01-01-2000 would have been infinitely preferable to 01-01-00. Though most of the dire predictions connected with that date--the Year 2000 computer bug's...