Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jordan's penetration should also leave senior guard Matt Langel open for plenty of shots from beyond the arc. Langel (11.3 ppg, .429 three-point percentage) earned All-Ivy honorable mention with his steady shooting and strong court sense. At 6'5, Langel might have to spend some minutes at swingman until Coach Fran Dunphy finds a frontcourt combination he likes...
...student's schedule, the first meal eaten is often lunch, the second dinner, and by midnight the student is feeling hunger pains again. Dining halls could prepare healthy snacks so students don't resort to pizza runs to silence the grumbles of their stomachs. Many dining halls are already open into the night for soda and cereal, something we appreciate, and many House committees have worked with dining services to provide late-night snacks...
Before Americans were content to watch the President in his fishbowl, open for public view. Now the President is shoved under an X-ray machine and thrown onto a psychiatrist's couch, bringing his most personal details ("Boxers or briefs, Mr. Clinton?") under scrutiny. Maybe to run for President, you have to be an exibitionist. Or at least you have to be nuts...
Backcountry activities have become extremely trendy, a fad that has been eagerly abetted by Madison Avenue. These days it's impossible to turn on a television or open a magazine without being assaulted by a barrage of ads that use skillfully packaged images of wilderness activities to rev the engine of consumerism. In 1851, when Henry David Thoreau declared, "In wildness is the preservation of the world," he could not have foreseen that wilderness, as an idea, would one day be used to sell everything from SUVs to soda pop. Disconcerting though this development may be, it happens to come...
Granted, the statistics--like the scales--don't lie. And it doesn't take an actuary to figure out that with Krispy Kreme going public next year and planning to open hundreds of new stores, America will continue gaining weight in the 21st century. Which means more and more people can expect to hear the antifat refrains that I've become so familiar with: "You won't live as long," "Your quality of life will be diminished," "Society will reject you," "You won't be able to keep up in the protest marches." (That was just in my family...