Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reputation as an academic tortoise, I did, indeed concentrate in history. With relatively lax requirements and a reputation for a high baseball cap quotient, the History Department is often regarded as the perfect repository for those taking the slow lane through Harvard. I have long suspected that more than one of my more academically inclined friends (particularly those in the honorsconcentrations of Social Studies and History and Literature) think of me as the archetypical history concentrator...
...courts refused to admit those two arguments, but attorney Bill Lane had better luck with a legal strategy called urban survival syndrome. His client, Daimion Osby, 18, of Fort Worth, Texas, was accosted last year by two men who in the past had threatened him over a gambling debt. Osby pulled out a .38- cal. pistol and shot the unarmed men to death. The case ended last month in a mistrial. Though 11 of the 12 jurors voted for conviction, the foreman opted for acquittal. He agreed with the argument that Osby shot Willie Brooks, 28, and Marcus Brooks...
...most dangerous men in America," says Jared Taylor, author of Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America and an expert witness for the defense. "His decision to use his weapon when attacked is more understandable, since his assailants fit this profile." Urban survival, said Lane, "is an extension of the law of self-defense to try to make the jury understand the point of view of our client...
Dartmouth, the second-place finisher, only blipped onto Harvard's radar screen late in the race. The Big Green, who had an outside lane, was out of the Crimson's field of vision when they made its move...
Good policy, but not good politics -- especially not by the lights of labor- union members, who have used the tax subsidy to negotiate some of the most expensive health benefits in America. When union bosses, led by AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, got wind that the White House was even discussing limits on the tax subsidy for health insurance, they met privately with Mrs. Clinton and warned her that labor's support for health reform -- deemed essential by the Democrats -- was at risk. The First Lady then sent word to her erstwhile reformers: There's no sense even talking about...