Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even in the normally quiet days of summer, controversy erupted between our irascible Dean of the College, Harry R. Lewis '68, and the student body. And, unsurprisingly, the culprit was once again Dean Lewis and the heavy-handed and utterly insensitive manner in which he deals with his students...
...clean. Declaring his commitment to a "society of truth," but speaking in a painfully slow, sometimes slurred voice, Boris Yeltsin told an interviewer on prime-time TV that he would be having heart surgery at the end of the month. The news was greeted calmly in Moscow and with quiet relief by Western diplomats, who have long said they would like to see either a healthy President or a new one. Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and National Security Adviser Alexander Lebed, the two most prominent candidates to be Yeltsin's successor, were deferentially silent. In the background, however...
...This quiet town has little to do with the university that shares its name. Indeed, this reporter was the first visitor from the University that Town Administrator John D. Petrin, an eight-year veteran, could ever recall. But there is one connection between the two Harvards--the University's Oak Ridge Observatory is located here, about two miles from the town center...
...were just quiet, and we let some radicals take over in the '70s and '80s," said 33-year-old delegate Sara Bailey King, a special education teacher in east Texas. "Eighty percent of us call ourselves Democrats because we're working people who want to keep the safety...
Pforzheimer House, a reputed haven in recent years for pre-med students seeking a quiet place to study, is the site of an early clash between the needs of entering students and those of well-established residents...