Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another press conference last week, after weightlifter Zhan Xugang of China won the 154-lb. gold medal, his coach, Yang Han Xiong, was asked why Zhan added more weight to the bar in the clean and jerk (bringing it up to a world record 430 lbs.) even after he had clinched the gold medal at 424 lbs. "The Olympic spirit is faster, higher, stronger," said Yang. "So we tried...
Connecticut's Supreme Court broke important new ground last week by ruling that school segregation violates the state's constitution, no matter what caused it. But the shocking thing about the ruling was the knee-jerk reaction of elected officials like Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. "There will be many who are disappointed by this decision, as am I," he proclaimed. "We disagree [with it] and fear the consequences." Even before many people had a chance to read the decision, Blumenthal, a Democrat, had joined Republican Governor John G. Rowland in drawing lines in the sand. No "involuntary busing" to diversify...
...ministry sends shock waves that will ripple down through the Wilmot family history. His youngest son Teddy, watching his father try to support the family by selling encyclopedias door to door and then slowly dying of tuberculosis, becomes cautious and fearful. He takes a job as a soda jerk and eventually marries one of his customers. She is religious, but Teddy tells her not to expect him to share her faith: "My poor dad wanted to believe and needed to believe and God just stayed silent...
Harvard Democrats should eschew a knee-jerk defense of unpopular programs and instead focus on real solutions. Instead of spending their energy protesting cuts in welfare, Harvard Democrats should talk about how to finally end the pervasive cycle of poverty. Rather than fight Republican cuts in student loans, Harvard Democrats show propose ideas to throw open the doors to college to all those kept out because of escalating tuition costs. Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 said that it should be "the task of our Party to break with foolish traditions." Harvard Democrats should lead the way in this process, not bring...
Anyone past adolescence knows what moral to draw from the Scarlett and Ashley Wilkes story: Keep your dreams if you like (though Ashley may turn out to be to be a jerk when deprived of his chivalric mystique), but work with what you have--which Scarlett, God knows, did. Americans get the Presidents they exert themselves to deserve. That may or may not be a good thing; it is a mistake to get prissy about it. Selflessness shades into self-righteousness. If Presidents are chosen by the exertions of selfless zealots, the process may prove dangerously unrepresentative...