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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always tried to put Kahn's credo into practice. But I'm compelled to admit that Saturday I was sure Harvard was going to make good on its best chance for an Ivy title in years...
...m jealous. I'm really, really, almost angrily jealous. Because it's not like I have particularly tortured eating habits, compared to most girls I know. I've gone through that a bit, in and around high school, and I'm endlessly happy and grateful to have left it behind. But looking back, I resent the amount of mental and emotional energy I lost to those thoughts--to planning what I was going to eat for dinner, and berating myself for what I'd eaten at the party last night, and forcing myself through ridiculous exercise routines and talking about...
...would we be if we could have that time and energy back? My friends and I and, according to a statistic I've heard, the 90 percent of fifth grade girls who diet? I'm not saying we would've written the great American novel--although it's rather nice to think so. It's just that it's such a waste, such a terrible waste. We are, for the most part, no fatter or thinner than we were when we started out, despite our neurotic attention to the matter. We may gain and lose a little weight here...
According to Hoffmann, Hughes left his position at Harvard after his wife, Judith M. Hughes, who was an associate history professor, did not receive tenure. San Diego offered both Hughes and his wife tenured positions...
Alongside Dr. Benjamin M. Spock, Hughes co-chaired the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), a group worried about the massive worldwide nuclear arms buildup during the Cold War and nuclear weapon testing...