Word: naming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school class who came to Harvard weren't particularly close to one another. And it appeared even less possible that she had meant that everyone at Harvard was part of a club, because the average student probably knows less than 2 percent of Harvard undergraduates by name. I dismissed her as someone overly caught up in the inherently exclusionary nature of Harvard. Once she arrived, I felt sure, her sense that Harvard was an exclusive club would evaporate as she realized how decentralized the community...
...weird to go to uc-vote and see my name as the only name there," Wathington said. "Maybe it's [because of] a distrust in the U.C. or a general apathy on campus. In either case...
...Mathers-Briggs is angling for cold, hard cash. The mother of rapper EMINEM (ne Marshall Bruce Mathers III) has filed a $10 million suit against her son for what she claims are his unflattering, and all-too-public, assessments of her maternal skills. On his best-selling single My Name Is, Eminem raps "Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to/ I just found out my mom does more dope than I do." Lest one think he was merely trying to rhyme, he also described his mother in several national magazines as a lawsuit-happy, welfare-relying...
...premises, which when they are officially rechristened next year, will feature Caribbean cuisine and a statue of the home-run hitter where once a Jordan mural reigned. The restaurant's owners are not cutting Jordan from the team completely. They plan to open a smaller venue with his name. Unless perhaps someone on the Bears does really well this year...
Because fact can have far more influence than fiction. How else to explain Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski, a harrowing, much celebrated Holocaust memoir, which turns out to have been fabricated? The author's real name is Bruno Doesseker. He is not a child survivor of Majdanek, the son of Latvian Jews murdered in the Holocaust. He is Swiss, the son of a Protestant single mother. He never saw the Holocaust. (He claims his Holocaust memory was recalled while he was in therapy...