Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finalists shared a belief that class marshal was not a position to campaign for. "Not campaigning is the whole point of marshal elections," said Terrence M. McNeil...
...That point made, most of you won't relate to the exclusively connections-based view of Harvard. "Uh, actually, my friends are my friends because I like them, and I'm learning things in my classes at Harvard that I never even dreamed were possible in high school," is the thought that I hope is drifting through your head right now. The majority of Harvard students don't make friends to beef up their future Filofaxes, although by the end of freshman week, you certainly will have met a few of your fellow classmates who clearly...
...military. He spent two years in cadet school, and by 1960 he was promoted to captain. The same year he got married, but when his Taiwanese-born wife suggested they buy a house, Peiji said no. "At that time we all thought we were going back to China. What point in buying a house in Taiwan?" he says, laughing. "It was not until 1975, when Chiang Kai-shek died, that we changed our views...
Schrager broke new ground when he decided that a "point of view" is more important than standardization in a hotel. It's been his stock-in-trade since 1984, when he and his late partner Steve Rubell (whose family today runs its own hotels in Miami) opened Morgans in midtown Manhattan. It was both a professional and a personal reclamation project. The two spent slightly more than a year in prison for tax evasion following the collapse of their disco empire; soon after, they ventured into a more respectable branch of the hospitality industry. "People expected...
More than a few players would like to slam Savoca to the carpet just to make a point. Nearly everyone who plays on artificial turf--think sandpaper laid over concrete--hates it. Players say ligaments pop because the surface doesn't "give" once a foot is planted. Skin shreds from its abrasiveness; heads hurt from its hardness. Clark Gaines, regional representative of the National Football League's Players Association, says artificial turf causes up to three times as many noncontact injuries as grass. "These injuries simply don't happen on a natural surface," he says. "Players have their own terminology...