Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...road to the mountain I ski at brings me out of Montana and into another world, a world full of people I love to hate. From the arrogant smugness of the man sporting the Vail hat to be the spoiled kids who whine about the bad food, this ski resort, like all ski resorts, is populated by 2 percent locals and 98 percent out-of-town skiers...
Overpriced resort food (which is usually left for someone else to clean up) serves as an excellent medium to discuss the morning's adventures. Conversation centers on how good or bad the snow is (usually worse than it was at Aspen last year) and how much better the new pair of skis are (as if the latest model really makes a difference for someone who's greatest accomplishment on skis happens to be their participation in the feat of engineering designed to haul them up the hill...
University Attorney Frank J. Connors says when the gifts become outdated, Harvard must sometimes resort to legal recourse to rechannel the funds. It usually means a court appearance known as a Cy Pres hearing...
...point is The Crimson's recent coverage of the Quad. No less than eight different pieces in the 10 days leading up to Spring Break splashed all over the paper--front page, opinions, FM--painted the Quad as a miserable back-of-beyond hellhole, which first-years should resort to voodoo rituals to avoid. There was not one article in defense of the Quad to balance this barrage. I am told that there are many (justifiably) outraged responses from Quadlings. More on that later, once I get a chance to delve into those letters and e-mails...
...Marines are not just holding the pilot responsible for the Prowler air crash that killed 20 people at an Italian ski resort, they?re considering charges against all four crew members. ?There?s only one set of flight controls on that aircraft,? says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. ?Pointing the finger at all four men suggests there may have been a pact among them to engage in some sort of horseplay. The Marines were not impressed that all four crewmen initially refused to testify, allowing them to collude and present a common account...