Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move during his announcement tour 2 1/2 weeks ago, when he seemed so enthusiastic about calling Clinton's conduct in the Monica Lewinsky scandal "inexcusable" to one interviewer after another. The President, at dinners with friends, insisted he was not upset by what Gore had said about the Monica matter, only a little sore that he had said it so much...
...time did any Harvard personnel violate Professor Thiemann's privacy," Rudenstine said in his statement. "The role of technology staff in this matter has been thoroughly reviewed at the most senior levels of the University, and it is very clear that there was nothing inappropriate or invasive about their actions...
...with the professor far in the distance and a group of relatively unresponsive TF's becomes an unfortunate reality, but for someone to be actually touting the size of the biggest classes--and claiming that professors are simply willing and able to have you come to office hours no matter what the level of the course--seemed a pleasant fiction. This was just a small section of the tour, alongside a discussion of writing seminars and thesis advising and other truly responsive pieces of the undergraduate career, but the concept of boasting class girth brought on a giggle...
Apart from the Harvard-Yale charade, to see whose tailgate can get more champagne and more erudite people and big bucks, I actually can't remember any Harvard rivalry--no matter how many fish you throw at me. In fact, there must be some sort of Kafkaesque element to showing up to play a road game to fans eagerly throwing trout and speaking of a great rivalry you can't quite recall...
Pakistan?s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, may have promised peace in Kashmir, but delivering is another matter. Fighting actually escalated Thursday as the Pakistan-backed guerrilla forces inside Indian territory delivered their verdict on the withdrawal promised to President Clinton last Sunday by launching fierce counterattacks against Indian troops. "Feelings are running very high in Pakistan over what many perceive as a sell-out over Kashmir," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "But the U.S. won?t accept Nawaz's going back on his word, and he?ll lose authority as prime minister if he can?t rein...