Word: jacked
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Students on both sides of the political spectrum claimed victory for their candidate after hundreds across campus watched vice presidential contenders Al Gore '69 and Jack F. Kemp debate last night...
With an endowment of $8.6 billion, the record returns mean an additional windfall of $60 million to the College and the graduate schools, according to Jack R. Meyer, president of the private Harvard Management Company. These gains are substantial even given the sound American economy in which the stock market has gained more than 14 percent this year and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has surpassed 6,000 points. Harvard's investments, under the management of HMC, outpaced this strong investment market by 13.7 percent, Meyer noted...
...streets, 100,000 new jail cells and an expansion of the death penalty, the Republicans leapt forward to denounce him for including funds for "midnight basketball," one of George Bush's 1000 Points of Light. When President Clinton pushed for adoption of an urban agenda based on Jack Kemp's empowerment zones proposal, the Republicans said he was wasting taxpayers money. When Clinton signed President Bush's GOALS 2000 education plan into law, Republicans cried he was trying to institute federal control over local school districts. It's true that you can't you please all the people...
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, the matron of honor, walked ahead of Carolyn. Caroline's two daughters, Tatiana and Rose, were flower girls and her son Jack, 3, was the ring bearer. "Why is Carolyn dressed like that?" Jack asked, creating a ripple of laughter. Anthony Radziwill, the son of Jackie's sister Lee, served as best man. The vows were the standard Roman Catholic liturgy. Kennedy and Bessette had received permission from a bishop to hold a Catholic ceremony in a Protestant church. The deacon was a Jesuit from the church in New York City where Jackie was baptized, confirmed...
...naive lyric that sounded like poetry then and rings with poignance today. You hear the old pop songs, and suddenly it's 1960; you are yanked back to the spot where they first assaulted you in all their potent mystery. "When I first heard Ray Charles' Hit the Road, Jack," says Tom Hanks, who was five in the summer of '61, "I literally thought it was about some guy hitting the road with his fist. I remember sitting out in front of my house, singing the song and slamming my fist on the pavement...