Word: neither
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than we assume, and even our college experiences are not the same. The only thing we clearly share is our age. But that means that, if all goes well, we will grow old together, you and I. My memories are bound up with yours. The years ahead are neither mine nor yours, but ours...
...eyes fell first on the killers, and the questions we can neither avoid nor answer. The talk-show rituals of absolution--blame the culture, the parents, the guns, the video games--left too much unresolved for those inclined to declare that the boys were simply, deeply wicked. But for those with an eye toward larger battles, the killers were not themselves evil; they were instruments of it, of the dark force we met in Narnia and try not to think about once we grow up, until the day we have no choice. Hence the 15 crosses planted...
...beloved, hapless Orioles haven't given this gritty port city much to cheer about lately, and neither did the drizzly weather last Monday. But you could feel a tropical sizzle building as the lights came up at Camden Yards that evening, and about 150 police officers--three times the usual contingent--surrounded the place. A salsa band heated up the bricks behind left field, and the usual ballpark air of stale beer and popcorn gave way to the exotic aromas of rum-and-mint mojitos and fine Havana cigars, which Yanqui yuppies puffed in violation of the U.S. trade embargo...
Until now, neither the effectiveness nor the putative mechanism of homeopathy has ever been subjected to what nonbelievers would call a scientifically valid test. Indeed, the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, which has $50 million to spend this year for just this kind of trial, has yet to sponsor even preliminary tests. Now it may be upstaged by a laureate and a skeptic...
...Neither will field a complete team, as both these meets come during Harvard's reading period...