Word: pads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crucial biographical fact appears only between the lines of his resume. Almost alone among prominent black politicians of his vintage, Wilder has not made race his crusade. Neither the church nor the civil rights movement served as Wilder's launching pad. A sense of personal entitlement served him instead, a belief that "as long as the Constitution was written for others, it was written for me." Often his color represented an impediment to be surmounted or a weapon to be used. He learned to do either well...
Dixon, who spent all day yesterday scurrying about the Longfellow School gym taking notes on a yellow legal pad, said that the Myers and Cyr results present "the classic example of the tortoise and the hare...
Without a word, you surrender your pen and note pad to him. He writes...
...That's too easy," you say, seizing the pen and pad. "The last two spots [the eighth and ninth] are the toughest to pick...
There are much easier ways to pad one's resume at Harvard than by being a UC member, easier ways than spending two or three hours every Sunday debating the week's resolutions, an hour during the week at the member's subcommittee meeting, an hour every week at office hours in the UC office, and even more hours to plan events, talk to the administration, and realize all the projects the representative is working on. This last time commitment invariably turns out to be the greatest...