Word: pete
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sitting on rickety wooden chairs, squeezed in along scarred red leather banquettes, they heard, over six nights, the sort of performers who have made the Vanguard the Mecca of Hip for the past half-century: jazz diva Shirley Horn, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, cafa swell Bobby Short, folk singer Pete Seeger and Professor Irwin Corey, the "World's Foremost Authority," who was once a comic mainstay of the club. Back in the '40s, when the Vanguard's founder, the late Max Gordon, asked the professor whether he thought the place would last 60 years, Corey replied, "It's a small...
...Pete Peraud '98 of Canaday B and his block mates choose to keep their fire door open all the time. "Within a week of school starting, one of my roommates was dating this girl across the way," Peraud said. "In the beginning, we'd go and shut it, but it always got opened up again. Then my roommate drew up this petition for us to sign saying that it was okay to leave the door open." Another roommate in the group, Christian Ruff '98 added, "Whenever my roommate and his girlfriend fight, there are always ten people involved." Defeated...
With Weld's withdrawal, speculation hadcentered on Gov. Pete Wilson (R-Cal.) as aprospective presidential candidate. Weld has saidin the past that he expects a "pro-choice governorwhose last name begins with W to be on theticket...
...remainders in the Republicans' feeble team of candidates, many are marked by public distaste. Against the creeping slime of Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) or the downright meanness of Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kans.), Clinton could paint himself as the nice guy, the family friend. Against vacuous Gov. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) or inexperienced Gov. Christine Whitman (R-N.J.), Clinton could calmly dismantle their arguments in every debate. But who knows? As the president who lost Congress in 1994 and lost on health care, Clinton qualifies for `damaged goods' status...
...Tigers have quietly won five straight games, showing that coach Pete Carril still...