Word: returns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before its publication, Purdy's book provoked heavy return fire from the chattering classes it draws a bead on. A long review in Harper's magazine, facetiously titled Thus Spoke Jedediah and reeking of the quippy, jaded wit that Purdy fears the nation is mired in, opened by poking fun at Purdy's past and went on to brand him--ironically, of course--a "young sage," dismissing his ideas as "second- and third-hand musings." The New York Observer, a metropolitan weekly that is to the disaffected Eastern elite what the Daily Racing Form is to gambling addicts, found...
...contract provides an alternative to the "buy-out" the guards had been offered in the past, under which, in return for their resignation, they would have received six months pay plus two weeks pay for every year they have worked as a guard if they have been a guard for over 10 years...
...letter asked that former students return their diplomas in exchange for correct ones...
Professor of Law Charles Fried traded the bench for the lectern this summer, giving up a seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to return the Harvard Law School's faculty...
...offense may also be bolstered by the return of sophomore forward Erin Aeschliman, who took the 1998-99 academic year off. Aeschliman made the leap from the junior varsity program in 1997 in time to score both of the Crimson's goals in a 2-0 win over UMass in the first round of the NCAA tournament. She finished the campaign with four goals and one assist...