Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst sort of political opportunist, flip-flopping on the issues and exploiting ethnic and racial stereotypes for his political gain. The victor in the Senate race, Representative Charles E. Schumer '71 has shown himself to be a devoted public servant and will hopefully serve New Yorkers better than his predecessor...
While Harshbarger's Democratic predecessor was a burden to the attorney general, Cellucci was heir to a more desirable political heritage...
Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, Stewart's predecessor as council president, said she had never been told of the balance's existence either, though she was aware that some term-bill roll-over from previous years existed...
Those expecting another Bonfire may be disappointed--the new novel is better. It's not quite as glitzy and brash and hilariously in-your-face as its predecessor, but then Atlanta in the late '90s, where most of the action occurs, is a more well-mannered place than New York City was in the '80s. The same bloodlusts--sex, money, status--rage in the New South as they do everywhere else; it just takes a little more digging to find them. Wolfe does, of course, but among all the animal appetites that are slaked or comically thwarted during the novel...
...young Welsh coal miner, Morgan Evans (Mwashuma Kamata Nyatta), who is taken under the wing of the local teacher, Miss Moffat (played by Dossy Peabody '74), in hopes of obtaining a scholarship to Oxford. In many ways, The Corn in Green can be looked at as a predecessor of the recent blockbuster Good Will Hunting. Yet, The Corn is Green, with its bittersweet ending and multi-faceted characters, is far more realistic and enjoyable than the fantastical Matt Damon film...