Word: partings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presence of the Sheriff of Middlesex County at the head of the academic processions in Harvard Yard was traced by President Neil L. Rudenstine to the need to control drunk and disorderly behavior at graduations in colonial times. The tradition of heavy alcohol use by college students is part of the history of most institutions. Listen to almost any college song, and you are bound to hear about young men hoisting their beer mugs in tribute to their alma mater. Colleges have had a long-term affair with beer...
Others say part of the difficulty in establishing how to study ethnicity is that the word itself is constantly evolving...
...Everybody at Harvard is ethnic. No group is over 50 percent...When you say ethnic studies...almost everybody feels that he or she is [part of] an ethnic group...
...Thursday and hit the $792 billion slow pitch. He vetoed the Republicans? tax bill and ritually disparaged it as a measure that would "turn us back to the failed policies of the past" at a time when the economy ? read, his economy ? is running like a dream. And although part of the show demanded that Clinton grab some high ground with a call for compromise ? a rejiggered cut of, say, $300 billion "would be a good bill I would happily sign" ? the tax cut of the century is looking more and more like a problem for the next one. Compromise...
...little possibility of escape. Victims of the scam report that efforts to use their browser?s Back or Forward keys, or to close their browser altogether, are in vain. For many, the only way to extricate themselves is by turning off their computer. The FTC is ticked off in part because legitimate web commerce is suffering, as potential online consumers are unable to reach their desired destinations. And parents are enraged because despite efforts to turn the Internet into a kid-friendly Disneyland of information, this latest scandal underlines their ultimate lack of control in cyberspace...