Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mario Cuomo, the longest-serving governor of New York in modern history, stood in front of 1500 people and cried twice. Not bawling out loud, of course. A person who held the same office held by both presidential Roosevelts tends to make an effort to avoid sobbing during a speech. But the tears in his eyes and in his voice were obvious twice, visible and audible even in the adjacent rooms on Simulcast. No matter what you might think of Cuomo, or even if you couldn't care less about Cuomo, you have to admit that it's kind...
...have a 55-person department, and only three senior and three junior professors in American [government]," says Morris P. Fiorina, who left his chairship as Thomson professor of government last year to accept a tenured post at Stanford University. "It takes a crisis and the American program is close to that...
...bits of marble here and there. But it's phony: the energy-saving bulbs still give off that wholly-unnatural purplish light and the turnstiles--they speak for themselves. Even without those kinds of mistakes, there's no accounting for dust or all the other details that reassure a person that generations have come before. They have deposited wisdom--which can now be absorbed--and they have departed. It makes a fellow all stoic...
...really only as old as the people who actually inhabit it--they just have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made up to look like a place where a person can read--is basically a fear of the past and an unwillingness to confront it head on and ask what it really means...
...Tuesday, HUPD officers patrolling the Harvard Medical School Campus were called about a report of a "person standing on an urn." Also on Tuesday, a piece of live ammunition was found near the Murr Center at 65 North Harvard St. in Allston. The HUPD is investigating the incident...