Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard is concerned, though, there is a world of difference between PBHA and the football team. Public service spends money and puts the College in risky situations. Athletics, on the other hand, makes money for the University. And the latter is a healthy, wholesome activity the old boys who run this place would approve of, unlike the rowdy folks at PBHA who helped organize the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers or joined communities in fighting the University in places like Mission Hill or on issues like rent control in Cambridge (where Harvard is the biggest landlord...
...course, then, he would have been interested in seeing these two "esteemed" panelists, the former a strategist, the latter a spinmeister--both television celebrities. Substantively, the panelists did have something to offer, or at least Carville did. But that is probably not what prompted the worker to become so interested in these Washington players. More likely it was his having seen their lovely mugs on TV: Carville hawking his book on Letterman, McCurry explaining away the President's foibles on C-Span...
...members of the Harvard women's basketball team are no strangers to the southern part of the country. Not only are Kelly Black and Allison Feaster native Southerners--the former from Georgia and the latter from South Carolina--but Black and Jessica Gelman first met each other in Chapel Hill...
...Mary's boasts 7'3, 345-pound center Brad Millard as well as competent outside shooting. This offensive balance is more than its highly-tauted opponent, Wake Forest, can claim during the latter stages of its season. The Gaels could give Duncan everything he can handle and the fireworks inside should be fun as well...
...chess lies in the sublime tension between logical analysis (call it Truth) and human intuition (call it Beauty). Our fascination with Deep Blue derives from fearful wonderment at the possibility that computers, which have already surpassed us at the former, may soon produce some chilling emulation of the latter. Kasparov, the latest standard bearer in humanity's war against our own obsolescence, is stoical in the face of the challenge. He muses that God, observing tomorrow's computers, may feel something akin to grandfatherly pride. "Maybe the highest triumph for the Creator," he says, "is to see his creations...