Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With goals from senior midfielder Pat Dutton and senior attackman Josh Morgan, Cornell jumped out to an early 2-0 lead. Then, Harvard defenseman Michael Meagher went coast-to-coast to put Harvard on the board with 3:11 remaining in the first period...
Instead of rallying Republicans, the Balkan showdown has exposed how divided the party is over America's duties in the post-cold war world. After days of tap dancing, by late last week the Republicans had cleaved fairly cleanly between two camps: those in Pat Buchanan's populist, isolationist fortress who were arguing we should leave Europe to the Europeans, and those who, belatedly in some cases, fell in step behind Arizona Senator John McCain, the former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and called for NATO to fight on even harder to preserve the credibility of U.S. power...
...letters from college admissions offices were sent out last week, I couldn't help recalling the late R. Hugh ("Pat") Uhlmann, a Dartmouth man of antic temperament, who used to tout a daring idea for taking the pressure off any college that is regularly forced to turn away the progeny of many prosperous and influential citizens: Auction off the last 10 places in the class...
...should acknowledge that Pat, a friend of mine from Kansas City who was in the flour business, regularly had ideas that some people, particularly his wife, did not take completely seriously. For instance, the deterioration of his boyhood neighborhood gave him the idea that, for a modest sum, he could buy the house he was born in and turn it into a national shrine...
...used to remind Pat that under his plan an applicant whose family had serious bidding potential might have difficulty getting in on the original round of uncompensated acceptances. I can imagine the sort of conversation some Ivy League admissions director might have one day with, say, Bill Gates: "Well, yes, Mr. Gates, it's true that a boy with 1600 SAT scores who was first in his class and the star of the football team--particularly a boy with that sort of talent on the cello, not to speak of the courage and presence of mind to save six nuns...