Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appalled that the Crimson spent the bulk of the article discussing the controversy over a "whipping scene" and failed to even mention the Harvard students who skated in the event. This is just poor and lazy journalism...
Some students who cast absentee ballots in some of the national elections attended the IOP's "Election Night" last night, which made no mention of local races. Their decision, they said, was motivated by politics at home, not apathy in Cambridge...
China can't get no respect. The world's most populous country, the up-and-coming superpower, the economic behemoth--none of that cuts much ice in American minds preoccupied with Tiananmen Square, Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the Communist Party. That's precisely why China's President Jiang Zemin is so eager to come here. He may have consolidated power internally, but he desperately wants to affirm his nation's legitimacy abroad. So Jiang's aim during his eight-day state visit, the first since China's bloody suppression of the democracy movement in 1989, is nothing less...
...mention of the ancient remedy had ever appeared in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association--until last week. The first double-blind study in the U.S. on the effects of ginkgo, researchers say, proved that an extract of ginkgo has a small but measurable effect on dementia. "Ginkgo is no miracle," says Dr. Pierre LeBars, a neurologist at the New York Institute for Medical Research in Tarrytown, N.Y., and the study's principal investigator. "But we have some patients who have stabilized for four years...
Poor arts! No one ever suggests that dogs range far afield from the traditional canine function. The catch is, when you take money from the government, you subject yourself to the mercies of the political process--which is also open, as the recent history of the NEA (not to mention history, period) proves, to philistines and worse. American Canvas reminds us that they are not all on the right. Critic Edward Rothstein put it tartly in the Times: "Washington liberals took a similarly vulgar view [to conservatives], focusing on their own versions of 'values' and treating art as a form...