Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wood said in a critical letter to Tom O'Donnell '47, the chair of the Institutional Policy Committee, "it is particularly important that the separate matter of Harvard's laudable (if small and long-delayed) scholarship and exchange efforts not be confused with divestment. The latter issue is of an entirely different magnitude, since fully 100 times as much money is involved...
...latter-day comic-book Lois broke off from Superman in 1982 because their relationship, such as it was, "didn't seem to be working anymore." But they remain friends. After a recent rescue, she offered him some white wine and brie. Lois has won a Pulitzer Prize. And she is dating none other than Lex Luthor, the onetime mad scientist, now transformed into the "most powerful man in Metropolis." This is liberation...
...last two decades, people have begun to look to biology for answers to social and philosophical questions. This trust may be justified, but current popular biology books range from the enlightening and profound to the misleading and shallow. Rupert Sheldrake's The Presence of the Past falls near the latter end of this continuum...
...traced in three popular films--the early Front Page, which sentimentally celebrated cynical and amoral Chicago newspapering; All the President's Men, which ennobled the journalism that brought down Nixon; and the more recent Absence of Malice, which examined the way an unfeeling reporter damages personal lives. Both the latter movies, unlike Front Page, argue that the press does matter; the first for the good it can do, the second for the harm. What caused the change in attitude? In his valedictory speech last year as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Creed Black, publisher of the Lexington...
This is hogwash. Whether a candidate runs on a platform that is anti-apartheid or anti-pu pu platter, whether his or her campaign is political or apolitical, there is an implicit understanding between voters and their choice that the former trusts the latter's judgement in volatile issues like this one regarding the Fly Club. By definition, all governments are inherently political. That the Undergraduate Council identifies itself as a "student government" at the beginning of every schoolyear (when it encourages students to run for office) underscores this truism...