Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, just because John Lee scored higher than John Smith on the SAT's does not necessarily mean that the former has more of a chance to get in. The latter may have qualities which make him a "better" candidate. James Brown, the former Director of Admissions at Brown University, said in a New York Times article. "The question is not one of race. It's academic balance...
With three weeks remaining in the ECAC regular season, the first-place Crimson finds itself in a favorable position. But that doesn't mean the road to its second straight ECAC title will pose no problems for Harvard...
...wisecracks about Bush's privileged background, it is hard to remember all the solemn discussions of the "new" Bob Dole, a man whose rapier wit allegedly had been sheathed by marriage and maturity. In truth, there is nothing like a new Dole; there remains a cutting edge, even a mean streak, to much of his humor. But there are healthy signs that he can direct the barbs at himself when warranted. When his snideness is under control, the wisecracks and one-of-us message make Dole one of the better stump speakers in the presidential pack...
Reichler's background is not exactly revolutionary. The son of a baseball writer for the Associated Press and an ardent fan himself, Reichler grew up on Long Island. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1973, he joined the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter, where he played a mean shortstop on the firm's baseball team and put his encyclopedic knowledge of the sport to use in representing then Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. In 1979 Reichler's firm picked him to help recover Nicaraguan assets pilfered by the Somoza dictatorship. Two years later, when Arnold & Porter grew disenchanted with...
...France, and they were taken Very Seriously. They bent the old-fashioned narrative line into a double helix, with sneaky dream sequences and complex flashbacks. You'd come out of an Ingmar Bergman film debating which part was fantasy and which reality, and what did it all really mean? Sexually, European dramas were less fettered than the Hollywood stuff; an art-film lover could get both stimulated and aroused. They were wonderful pictures too, some of them. Movies have never been so daring as when Bergman & Co. were pushing the existential pedal to the cinematic metal. For a while...