Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to make the effort at all tells you how far rightward the G.O.P. has tilted. Until now, no one has challenged Dole's conservatism. However, evidence of Dole's compassion--his support for school lunches, food stamps and AIDS research, for example--is cited by his opponents as proof that he is a closet moderate, which for many hard-core conservatives is akin to saying he's a socialist. If Dole were truly the leader he claims to be, he would be seeking to bring the G.O.P. back to his brand of pragmatism, the kind of Republicanism that flourished...
...meaning and symbols of national character in such natural objects as forests, rivers and mountains. Consider, for example, the Alps. To sobersided moderns, these vast, snowy protuberances are no more than vertically enhanced scenery--awesome to be sure, but devoid of greater meaning. Earlier generations were more impressionable. As proof that the mountains were possessed by the devil, the learned physicist and mathematician Johann Jacob Scheuchzer in 1702 compiled an encyclopedic list of dragon sightings in the Alps. (Mons Pilatus was said to harbor a particularly hideous monster, with a head "that terminated in the serrated jaw of a serpent...
...celebratory quality in Memoir from Antproof Case (Harcourt Brace; 514 pages; $24), but reasonableness does not rule. As we meet the novel's main character, he is 80 or so, hiding out in Brazil from real or imagined assassins, writing down his adventures and stashing them in an ant-proof case for his beloved 10-year-old stepson to read when he is older...
...return calls for comment, his attorney, Gerald Walpin, says the complaints are part of the smear campaign by remaining Grace directors and that the incidents described by his accusers were no more than "kidding" on Bolduc's part. "That no one ever filed a complaint," he says, is proof "that employees viewed it as friendly banter and nothing more...
...professor told The Crimson in aninterview earlier this week that he would notobject to her enrollment in the College. "I wouldlike to see her next year if she can prove to theadmissions office that she's not at risk,"Dershowitz said. "But the burden of proof hasshifted...