Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will, but that will be a pressing issue only for this year and maybe next. After that, the Quad/River issue will be moot because the houses will not have the identities they once had. The only factors that could influence the class of 2010 as to whether they prefer Kirkland, Eliot or Currier would be location, size of rooms or aesthetics, all things students cannot control anyway. At least this year's eight-year-olds won't have to decide their housing based on their racial identities...
Nearly 140 years after Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, that message still has remarkably broad appeal. Polls consistently show that nearly half of all Americans reject Darwin's theory of evolution. They prefer to believe, against all scientific evidence, the Old Testament account of how God created the world in seven days...
...another run at it. Once again, he sees an opportunity and a rationale. Budget balancing, term limits and the reform of Medicare and Social Security are all stalled in Congress or neglected, so far, as campaign issues. So Perot told the Washington Post last week that while he would prefer to stay in private life, "I cannot live with myself knowing what these problems are and seeing the people in government not facing these problems...
Gone are the days when candidates had songs tailor-made for their campaigns, such as 1952's Irving Berlin classic I Like Ike. Today, politicians (like Lamar Alexander, right) prefer pre-existing melodies that sum up their drive for the White House. Here are songs currently associated with the candidates--and suggestions they might consider, given the results of the primary season...
Cars do not like to drive through the snow. For them, it is a mechanical hindrance. Bikes do not like to ride through the snow. Their tires slip. People prefer not to walk through the snow. Well, it does weigh on one's already tied calf muscles and the obvious threat to pant legs must be considered. But the dogs out on the field, which otherwise might be called a green, between the Leverett towers and Dunster gate, seem to enjoy the snow, regardless of the month. They play frisbee. Their hydraulics appear in fine working condition. Big dogs, labradors...