Word: manful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ACCORDING to the October 16 issue of U.S. News & World Report, Harvard-Radcliffe ranks third among national universities. This came as quite a shock to an acquaintance, a "Harvard man" if ever there was one. He's not used to being second-best in anything; third is simply anathema...
...Harvard man didn't see it that way. "This university doesn't have to answer to anyone," he snorted, "except possibly the Justice Department. But certainly not to any pagan journalists...
...report, I confessed, made no mention of setting. The Harvard man had made his point--but he was already onto another item...
...seemed the Harvard man had finally seen the light. Ranking national universities in terms of "overall goodness" is a ludicrous business, he said...
Pardon me, but a lot of high school sweethearts would take exception. "Statutory rape" is a label applied to any sexual intercourse--consensual or not--with a woman under 18. Any man who had a sexually active relationship at this age is a statutory rapist. (Yes, that includes even magical moonlit nights after the junior prom...