Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...luck. We've got all the luck. Harvard's last three Beanpot championships have fallen on inauguration years (`89,`81,`77). If you include Ford (he's easy to forget), make it the last five championships (we won in `74 and `69). The luck of Slick Willy, nod to Harvard...
School Presidents: They've got President Curry. We've got Neil Rudenstine. Neil was recently voted one of the 10 sexiest men by Boston Magazine. The man is smart, powerful and now sexy. What can't he do? Coolness of President, nod to Harvard...
...matter not just of principle, but of practical politics. Unless conservatism is prepared to divorce itself from its extremists, it will suffer the taint. As it suffered in 1964 when Barry Goldwater declared famously that "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." That welcoming nod to the John Birchers and other right-wing nuts convinced millions of Americans that Goldwater and his party were not fit to govern...
...block, because everyone around it is infants. Rensselaer is ranked ninth in the nation. That's a joke. RPI may be young and fiery, but until it learns to play defense, it won't get very far. The pollsters are just giving them the nod so they don't embarass the ECAC. Which is what the league is: an embarrassment...
...right. Nothing did. From October on, duct tape held up my bathroom windowpane. I realize now that it was my fault, in part. The system here doesn't accommodate you, it ignores you. I shouldn't have taken a nod for an answer. I should have made life difficult for the Dunster House superintendent until somebody fixed my windowpane...