Word: idea
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...right in Boston. It was 60 years ago, March 3, 1939, when the very first goldfish was gulped by Lothrop Withington Jr. in a campaign publicity stunt at Boston College. A candidate for freshman class president, Withington staged the swallowing to attract attention, after his friends gave him the idea with a $10 bet. Hungry for votes, anxious to collect his money, and most probably motivated by a prescient sense of history, the enterprising student invited Boston journalists to the event. Company assembled, the events played out dramatically. Suspended high above young Lothrop's nervous brow, the wriggling scales gleamed...
Weigel first suggested the idea of a biography to the Pope's spokesperson a number of years ago, and after "phone calls and faxes across the Atlantic," the Pope finally invited him to a dinner during which he approved the idea...
Thomas J. Mucha '03 said he was receptive to the idea of getting a shot in his dining hall...
...media has made much of the idea of a vice president playing underdog, but in doing so they miss the point. Debates can do what the media, in all their excitement about personalities, drug intrigue and the money trail have been unable or unwilling to do: talk about the issues. Though the post-impeachment Clinton presidency was able to govern without addressing the issues, we can only hope the next president will consider the many-faceted challenges that face our nation, from U.N. bills and international peace negotiations, to Social Security and budget reform, to the seemingly escalating cycles...
...those on the outside--the ironists--there is a nagging skepticism of whether the idea of a House can work at all. In the face of randomization, and most recently, the reduction of blocking group sizes, Houses have become superficial mixing grounds before trotting off to a club meeting...