Word: hand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 announced last week the formation of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, an organization that will hand out funds to student groups interested in women's and gender issues...
Student groups that have received funding from RUS say they too would be more comfortable knowing students have had a hand in their grant...
...Harry Potter fans have something a good deal more worrisome to fret about than potential smooching and hand holding. Rowling has been dropping increasingly pointed promises that the four remaining Harry Potter books will turn darker than the first three. "There will be deaths," she says. "I am writing about someone, Voldemort, who is evil. And rather than make him a pantomime villain, the only way to show how evil it is to take a life is to kill someone the reader cares about." Can she possibly mean (oh!) Hermione, (no!) Ron or (gasp!) Harry himself? Rowling discloses nothing...
...magazine, facetiously titled Thus Spoke Jedediah and reeking of the quippy, jaded wit that Purdy fears the nation is mired in, opened by poking fun at Purdy's past and went on to brand him--ironically, of course--a "young sage," dismissing his ideas as "second- and third-hand musings." The New York Observer, a metropolitan weekly that is to the disaffected Eastern elite what the Daily Racing Form is to gambling addicts, found Purdy just as cloying and irritating. Among New Yorkers whose daily bread is irony, heavily buttered with sarcasm and ridicule, Purdy's message of earnest civic...
Murphy said what he saw was a simple matter of the cream rising to the top. Linden peaked early but hasn't improved markedly in recent years. Wilford, on the other hand, took more time but has continued to improve...