Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government doesn't like to catch spies. Nabbing one tends to be embarrassing, seen as proof that the people in charge have been sloppy and lax on security. And it raises painful questions: How much damage has the spy done? Why wasn't he rooted out earlier? Who's making sure such pillaging of the country's vital secrets doesn't happen again? It's an unwinnable debate that no Administration wants to join...
...Sheila M. Reindl, one of ECHO's two supervisors in the Bureau of Study Counsel, says statistical proof substantiates these hypotheses about Harvard's environment...
...Bottom line: maybe Shakespeare was homosexual, maybe he wasn't--but there is no conclusive proof for his sexual orientation in his sonnets. Certainly, the writers of the movie are cutting corners artistically when they have Will write Sonnet 18 to his girlfriend, but they are doing it for the sake of convenience, not homophobia...
Bottom line: maybe Shakespeare was homosexual, maybe he wasn't--but there is no conclusive proof for his sexual orientation in his sonnets. Certainly, the writers of the movie are cutting corners artistically when they have Will write Sonnet 18 to his girlfriend, but they are doing it for the sake of convenience, not homophobia. JOSH N. LAMBERT '01 March...
...creme de la creme were placed at the top, followed by the social outcasts who attended Harvard because of academic merit. The social list determined precedence in table seating and service during meals, position in academic processionals and even class recitation. Without ancestral mansions in Newport or proof of a Mayflower voyage, the boys at the end of the list really did come last...