Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House spirit embodied in the present House system. Fortunately, I was in one of the last groups of students able to choose my home for three years. I chose Cabot, North, Currier and Adams as my four choices for the housing lottery. The vibe in these four Houses fit my personality. The lottery placed my blocking group and I in Cabot House where we remained for the final three years...
...didn't really see it," she said. "[However], for some women, the uncertainty of where they fit as Radcliffe students is a problem--a concern that in some way, they might be second-class. I don't believe [the current split] is a helpful feature of our institutional landscape...
Allow me to pose some rhetorical questions: Why are there no students on the Ad Board? Why are Harvard students, considered fit by our society to judge murder cases, or to sentence people to death, not considered responsible enough to sit on the Ad Board? Are the students at MIT, Stanford, and all seven other Ivy League schools with student representation in their disciplinary bodies more responsible than...
Amos, 34, has always been tough to figure. In 1992, when she entered the national music scene, her intensely personal style of piano rock was derided in some alternative-rock circles as precious. Today her brazen sexual persona seems a bit oversize to fit in with the Lilith Fair set ("I like a little testosterone," she says, explaining why she won't play the all-female Lilith scene). Still, she's found her own platinum niche. Her debut album, Little Earthquakes (1992), which features songs about sexual awakening, sold more than a million copies; her last, Boys for Pele...
...didn't see fit to include Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as one of your key "Leaders & Revolutionaries" of the 20th century [TIME 100, April 13]. Rabin not only orchestrated the historic peace treaty between Israel and Jordan and the Oslo accords with the Palestinians but also brought about a general recognition in Israel of the price that has to be paid for peace. The result today is a general moderation among right-wing movements. ASSAF KEDEM Zichron Ya'acov, Israel