Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much advantage you've taken of the opportunities presented to you--you can graduate at whatever level of education and connections that you choose," Mary B. Lawless '97 says. "The fact that we all go to Harvard and will have gone to Harvard, we have a certain common ground already, which will help ease over divisions like gender, class, whatever. If we choose to when we graduate, we can be rich...
...spiritual crisis, like that of many others, was resolved through Billy Graham. Billy and Ruth had not been overbearing about Franklin's religious life, but on his 22nd birthday in 1974, he recalls, his father confronted him, saying "You can't continue to play the middle ground. Either you're going to choose to follow and obey him or reject him." Feeling resentful, Franklin left shortly afterward to assist a Graham friend with a tour of the Holy Land. But several days later, in a hotel room in Jerusalem, he reread what might be called the New Testament's great...
...Stadium, which began life as Bennett Park in 1896, will be the first of the three to go. Twice in the past few years loyalists have surrounded the ball park and given it a hug to demonstrate their affection, but they are down to their last, futile lawsuit, and ground will soon be broken for a Camden Yards knockoff in a better neighborhood...
Dominating the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, CAA's forbidding I.M. Pei-designed headquarters stands as a Zen fortress guarding entry to the city's sparkling business district. For years the building has been show-biz ground zero, a hot zone where Ovitz--routinely referred to as "the most powerful man in Hollywood"--built up the town's most imposing list of talent. His masterful, softly menacing style, along with his courtship of nontraditional clients like Coca-Cola and Credit Lyonnais, transformed the old stereotype of the talent agent as a hustling flesh peddler into...
...teachings came from her self-appointed guru mom Lisa Hathaway, who, in a supposed quest to give her daughter freedom, imbued Jessica with Hathaway's own airhead philosophy. No wonder the kid wanted to fly! It makes no sense for Hathaway to call a nose dive to the ground a "state of joy." CYNTHIA HEBNER Wyckoff, New Jersey...