Word: jr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certainly won’t be having the same conversation 20 years from now,” he said. Students who attended the event said they enjoyed McCarthy’s talk. “I thought it was very enlightening,” said Isaac P. Martinez, Jr. ’09, who added that, as a gay American, he feels strongly about same-sex marriage. “The sooner it is legalized, the better,” he said...
...Headlines were made last week when Caroline Kennedy was reported to be considering the seat. The floating of her name was greeted by an initial flush of enthusiasm. "She would be fantastic," her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gushed to New York magazine. Caroline is a "strong possibility for the job," an unnamed family member told the New York Post, while New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg opined, "Caroline Kennedy can do anything." Well, maybe she can - but whether she'll get the chance to is still an open question. (See pictures of TIME's J.F.K. covers...
...late William F. Buckley, Jr., himself a graduate of Yale, once famously remarked that he would prefer a government of the first 400 names in the Boston phone book to that of the Harvard faculty. Ancient collegiate rivalries aside, Buckley’s sentiment abides...
...piano and quiet guitar—but winds up mired in a boring melody and terrible lyrics: “What I thought was beautiful / Don’t live inside of you / Anymore.” “Madagascar” sees Rose sampling Martin Luther King, Jr. while singing about his mid-life crisis. Isn’t hard rock supposed to be more exciting than this? Rose wails a response on “Catcher in the Rye:” “If I thought that I was crazy / Well I guess...
...learned the touchstones of the Civil Rights struggle throughout middle school and high school history classes: the steadfastness of Rosa Parks, the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the many indignities that spurred non-violent protests throughout the South. But can anyone remember what was happening in the North at the same time? University of Pennsylvania professor Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to remedy this gap in our historical memory with his new book, “Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.”Sugrue’s book is something...