Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, in accordance with this season of complete parity, the Saints literally have not clinched anything just yet. Both Yale and Dartmouth loom only three points behind St. Lawrence and could potentially soar into the final ninth and tenth place playoff spots. The only team playing just for pride come Friday and Saturday will be Brown, which has officially been eliminated from playoff consideration...
...strength and frailty of stardom in late middle age. So is Absolute Power, the movie that fleshes out this hunk of granite. Many of its leading actors were born before the Rushmore carvings were completed in 1941. Eastwood, directing himself as a cat burglar on his eighth or ninth life, is 66, as is Gene Hackman, who plays a sexually reckless U.S. President. E.G. Marshall, in the role of the President's adviser, is 86 and counting. The plot is a doomsday version of Bill Clinton's Paula Jones problem, but the theme is impending mortality--settling scores before time...
...strict European parent," says John. Family routines were sacrosanct. Children were expected to be at the dinner table on time. "The most severe form of punishment was when our father wouldn't talk to us for a week." When Madeleine was invited to the prom in ninth grade, it triggered a family fight over whether she would be allowed to ride in the boy's car. Her father's compromise: she rode to the prom with her date, and her father followed them in his car. Then Josef drove Madeleine home when the dance ended...
...like to think that there are compelling intellectual reasons other than that there are so few Core alternatives," said Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Young professor of Sino-Vietnamese history, who leads the ninth-ranked course, Historical Studies B-68: "America and Vietnam...
...ninth grade," Gates recalls over dinner one night, "I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. That established my independence and taught me I didn't need to rebel anymore." By 10th grade he was teaching computers and writing a program that handled class scheduling, which had a secret...