Word: musts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incognito and try to remember what it is we do and why people seem to fawn so easily. ("That's a Harvard student," I recall a mother telling her daughter one morning my first year as I rushed half-awake to breakfast. Her daughter wrote it down dutifully. It must have read like a field study: "Harvard student. Stubbly...
...consider myself a relatively well-connected Harvard student and I must say I can't remember any ballyhoo about Cornell. I have not attended any hockey games--a fault I must live with every day and will mend in the winter--but I've been to football and soccer and field hockey and try to stay informed via these pages, and I can't say I remember a Harvard-Cornell rivalry per se. It reminds me of the morning I woke up in the Yard to John Harvard painted green and the Dartmouth band shouting and dancing around...
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...
...distressing, really, that there is such a top-to-bottom reliance on Harvard as the Ivy League nemesis--must they really compare themselves to Harvard? Can't a university wake up in the morning, look at itself in mirror, and (to quote the ancient semi-comedic television past), declare "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me"? Perhaps the US News and World Report has eliminated this forever, but why the constant competition...
Despite the United States' repeated public assertions ? and a covert CIA operation to back them up ? that Slobodan Milosevic must be removed from power as soon as possible, apparently when isn?t as important as how. Responding to reports that Belgrade opposition leaders are considering options for finding Milosevic political asylum in, say, Iraq or Belarus, Pentagon chief William Cohen sounded like he had never heard of realpolitik. "He is an indicted war criminal," Cohen said in Denmark Friday. "If there is any place where he seeks sanctuary, perhaps I would recommend the Hague." To TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...