Word: papered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of their 200-year history, final clubs have acted as gentlemen's clubs where young Harvard men hung out with their friends to eat meals, play cards, read the paper, network with alumni and maybe have a drink...
...tell that despite my protestations several of my readers have already dropped the paper and caught the next flight to Palo Alto. That's okay, I don't mind. Those who have stuck with me this far are obviously the people who agree that life is not about money...
Tsien concedes that using the emotive word intelligence in the paper was sure to generate controversy. "We really don't mean to suggest," he explains, "that human intelligence is the same as animal intelligence. But I would argue that problem solving is clearly part of intelligence, and learning and memory are crucial to problem solving. And these mice are better learners, with better memories, than other mice...
Oklahoma junior high school science teacher Dennis Fritz never thought he would be convicted of raping and murdering his neighbor, 21-year-old Debra Sue Carter. He had no criminal record, except for driving offenses, and the case against him was paper thin--flimsy circumstantial evidence and the dubious testimony of a jailhouse snitch who claimed Fritz confessed while awaiting trial. Was that really all it took to send a man away for life? "When the jury came back with a guilty verdict, I almost went into shock," says Fritz...
...former mistress $10,000 or $60,000 a year? His inability to get his numbers straight catapulted him into the jaws of independent counsel David Barrett?s four-year, $10 million investigation. If Cisneros had been a more astute Clinton disciple, he would have known not to leave a paper trail of any kind ? who needs all those hard facts haunting you during your trial? The only evidence you want presented against you is the testimony of witnesses who seem inherently untrustworthy and inspire even more animosity than you do, ? la Linda Tripp. It also doesn?t hurt...