Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, and cast greedy eyes on credit cards, care packages and family visits that might help me make the transition from Dallas to the East more smoothly. But, despite my anticipated (and realistic) longings for the creature comforts of home, a look back at first year convinces me that both my parents and old Polonius knew what they were talking about. As a veteran of roommate wars over the surreptitiously borrowed and later stained white shirt or formal dress, I will be the first to say that borrowing and lending can have their disadvantages...
They concocted a plan to restore me to my Texas heritage--a trip to West Texas and the Rio Grande, home of millions of rattlesnakes, very few peoople and the ghost of Pancho Villa. It was a desolate Spring Break to be sure, but it also brought me back to a feeling of pride in my home. Between the combination of West Texas mesquite trees and glorious Dallas azaelas, I realized that no matter how influential my education at Harvard might be, I owed something to my roots...
Emotions don't run quite as high in Foxboro, where the National Football League's New England Patriots play their home games in the fall. The Patriots have followed the style of Coach Raymond Berry in the last few seasons: bland, boring and beaten...
...QRAC, home of the Quad's athletic scene, offers two basketball courts, four tennis courts, several racquetball and squash courts, Nautilus and even a ping pong table...
...last week. Her Conservative Party suffered its first national defeat in nearly 15 years, capturing only 34.7% of the vote and losing 13 of its 45 European Parliament seats. By contrast, the left- leaning Labor Party totted up 40.2%, stirring dreams among Laborites of ousting Thatcher from power at home...