Word: matching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...papers around the world. Using the Starr Report's FBI analysis of Clinton's DNA as its reference, the Star paid former prostitute Bobbie Ann Williams, source for the Globe article, and her 13-year-old son for their story and blood samples. The result: "There was no match. Not even close," says a Star source. (The Starr Report contains sufficient data to make a valid DNA comparison to rule out paternity.) But if the tabloid is disappointed by the results, it's putting up a good, Brill's Content-ready front. Says editor in chief Phil Bunton: "We investigate...
...Wake up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounces its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope...
Minorities are far more likely to find a match among people who share their heritage...
...fall of 1997, doctors told Alan J. Kuo '85 he had one month to live. The only thing that could save his life was a bone marrow transplant--and finding a marrow match was a challenge...
...this story has a happy ending: the Dunster House alumnus is alive today. Numerous drives around the country--including one at Harvard--finally gave Kuo the match he needed to fight his leukemia...