Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes no sense, but Pippen seems intent on burning the bridge between the Rockets and himself. The best thing that can happen for the team and for him to save his reputation is for the match not to light...
Otherwise, McEnroe is enjoying the tour, still intent on winning, but more relaxed than ever and more involved with the folks in the stands. "The idea is to get closer to the fan," he explains. Literally closer too, because at each stop the tour erects a small, temporary stadium that enables everyone in the crowd to see the players up close. During the week of a tournament, the participants banter and mingle with the fans and sometimes set up tennis clinics for kids...
...hurrying to ruin the people's work. The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill last week that would essentially outlaw assisted suicides. The so-called Pain Relief Promotion Act sounds hilariously uncontroversial, but in fact it would send doctors to jail for life for prescribing controlled substances with the intent of hastening death. The bill now goes to the entire House. Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has promised a filibuster in the Senate; the President has taken no stand...
...Ventura is also intent on staying in his Minnesota laboratory awhile, and so he is looking for a front man. His initial candidate for the 2000 nod was former Connecticut senator and governor Lowell P. Weicker, a thoughtful type who was the kind of maverick, reformist governor Ventura tries to be (except that Weicker is several dollars short on charisma). Weicker uses the R-word a lot, and means it; as a liberal Northeast Republican, he is a conservatives' answer to Bill Bradley (maybe he would have really caught on had he been better at basketball...). More recently, Ventura...
...random is random enough? Last week, in an effort to better realize the intent of randomized housing Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 announced that blocking group sizes would be slashed in half from 16 to 8. Lewis expressed his hope that the change would lead to more social mixing and help better integrate students into house life...