Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should both scholars join the Harvard faculty, "it will certainly add new blood," said Columbia University American historian Eric Foner, who two years ago turned down a Harvard tenure offer. "It will prove that the Harvard History Department is able to bring in good people in American history...
...jerry cans on the donkeys' backs got lighter. Toad the linguist asked Lutupen in Swahili, "Wapi maji?" (Where is water?) Then after finding a few dung-fouled cattle watering holes, he learned to be more precise: "Wapi maji mazuri?" (Where is good water?) At length they fell to quarreling over water and stopped speaking to one another for hours at a time...
England is where he writes -- slowly. A good day at a recently acquired computer is 400 words. If he produces more, he notes with a laugh, he invariably writes less the following day. On average it takes Naipaul about a year to compose a book. "I'm with it all the time, anxious to get to the end," he says with a hint of dread. "When I'm finished, I do nothing. It takes a week before I even begin to feel tired." To keep in shape, he performs a daily exercise taught to him years ago by a family...
...politics is always more fun than government. And Bush, after all, won the White House last year by visiting flag factories and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Whatever the lawyers' cautions, any good politician knows another axiom: Dance with the one what brung...
Last week the Coast Guard, National Guardsmen and private contractors made unusually good progress in cleaning up the uncanny string of spills. In Narragansett Bay, where the Greek tanker World Prodigy struck a reef and spewed 420,000 gals. of No. 2 fuel oil, most of the residue had evaporated or was rounded up by week's end. While the fuel may have long-term toxic effects on some marine life, fishermen were able to harvest shellfish for the first time since the accident. After an initial investigation, the ship's captain, Iakovos Georgudis, was charged with one misdemeanor count...