Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Harvard students do not have to registerto attend any of the events, registration packetsmay prove useful for navigating through thisweekend's activities. The cost for registration is$15 for intercollegiate students and $20 fornon-students, with a $5 penalty imposed on lateregistrants...
...definitely tell in practice that something is different," said co-captain Megan Basil. "This was one of the best weeks of practice we've had all year. It almost feels like we have something to prove, both to others and to ourselves...
Closer to home, we have the phenomena of Harvard professors knocking out bestsellers. Two recent books, Professor James Kugel's The Bible as it Was and Professor Marjorie Garber's Dog Love prove that Harvard professors have what it takes to get on to the bestseller lists. Meanwhile, rumors are still floating around about the seven-figure advance for economics Professor Gregory Mankiw's Macroeconomics textbook that is being used in several of Harvard's economic classes this tern...
...like all other Olympics, Nagano has its intrinsic debates, but they are sporting and professional ones for the most part or inextricable from the enterprise: the cupidity of organizers, the rebelliousness of snowboarders, and, oh yes, a feud among some of the Russian pair skaters. But all that should prove to be background noise. Breathe deeply. Zen is in the air. The ancient Greeks would have approved and duly declared, Let all hostilities cease, let the Games begin...
...what will doubtless prove to be a trend, a couple of airy, clever new novels--neither with anything much to say about the year 2000 or whither-Western-civilization or other matters of substance--are set at the edgy moment when the 21st century rumbles into view. A Lover's Almanac, by Maureen Howard (Viking; 270 pages; $24.95), is a funny, grouchy, madly nonlinear love story that commences in Manhattan after a drunken quarrel at a turn-of-the century party. Artie, a free-lance computer wizard, has behaved badly, and Louise, a gifted painter of enigmatic farm scenes...