Word: moments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes all it takes is an awkward moment to highlight a continuing problem. At Tuesday's Women's Leadership Awards dinner, one of the speakers thanked Harvard College and Radcliffe College for their support of the Women's Leadership Project (WLP), a sponsor of the event. She looked out over the dais and nodded to her right at the Harvard officials seated at one table. She then nodded to her left where Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson sat on the other side of the room. It was a graceful way to handle a difficult situation, but the physical and verbal...
...this: you re out clubbing at some popular spring break locale when the rotund football player from USC (who earned his way into the entour-age last night by drinking straight from the pitcher) is shaking his gut like a bowl full of Jello shotsasans shirt. Obviously a Kodak moment, right? Well, before you click the shutter, stop. Stop and think about the poor photo developers who will have to see that...
...columnist Christine Gorman, ?but Alzheimer?s is still far from being conquered.? As with so many other medical discoveries, doctors and patients need to remain cautious. ?The report is significant from a research point of view,? says Gorman, ?but it needs to be verified with further testing. For the moment it has no clinical applications...
...hard not to think of shaggy dogs. But apocryphal or not, the story does tell you everything you need to know about the President's attitude toward force. He doesn't like it, isn't comfortable with it, and will avoid using it until the last moment. And so last week, when he finally had to take action against Slobodan Milosevic, he first had to make peace with going...
...next scene they've been living together for months--stresses the impersonal power of sex but robs the characters of human dimension. The cybersex scene is clever but seems entirely detachable from the rest of the play. Like a skilled hooker, Closer is satisfying mainly in the moment; as a lasting experience, it leaves something to be desired...