Word: paled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play itself follows the tumultuous love-life of a hip New York choreographer, Anna. Her gay flatmate has died, leaving her to cope with grief and his rowdy, loudmouth older brother, Pale, Grief proves the easier to deal with. She loses her preppy boyfriend, he sense of identity, her other roommate's respect and her psychological well-being--all for a drunken, ignorant New Jersey (horror!) restauranteur. Love sure is funny...
Varma's inaccuracies pale, though, in comparison to Michael K. Mayo's editorial ripping into Harvard's fans. Mayo claims that our fans "can barely spit out a 'Rah.'" in fact, he says that Harvard "rahs its way into silence" while "Boston College students scream along with their band, Northeastern fans sing their team's praises to the rafters and Boston University spectators nearly bring the Garden balcony to the floor." Mayo demeans the effort of every one of the students who went to the game. The editorial is filled with factual errors. His comments regarding the Boston College...
...that fundamental existential questions are beyond the pale of academic discussion. That's what the Philosophy department is for, after all. What I found unsettling about this particular statement, however, was less its content than where I ran across it--in a science text. In a philosophy class one is prepared to be fed mataphysical must. But I have always been under the impression that the sciences were the bastion of objectivity Evangelism, I thought, had been relegated to the humanities...
...BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA HAD accepted it willingly. So had Muslims, though with reservations. What was needed for the nine-point plan to offer even a slim chance of peace to a country wracked by war was approval by Bosnian Serbs. That happened Wednesday at the ski resort of Pale, 10 miles east of the besieged capital of Sarajevo, where a parliament representing Bosnia's Serbs approved the plan by a comfortable margin. Under the plan, drafted in Geneva earlier this month, the country would be divided into 10 provinces largely drawn up on ethnic lines. Bosnia would continue to exist...
...described her attacker as a male, approximately 5' 11", "burly, with sandy hair, a straight nose, not particularly distinctive except for being very pale...[He was] wearing a sandy duffle coat...