Word: ridden
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...then there are the more personal conflicts that clutter American history in which Harvard played a role. Of all that I'm aware of, one in particular leaps to mind. On June 26, 1833, President Andrew Jackson, who had been bed-ridden due to severe hemorrhaging only two days earlier, hobbled out of bed to receive the honorary degree "Doctor of Laws" from Harvard. An extremely frustrated former-president and newly instated University overseer John Quincy Adams wrote that as "an affectionate child of our Alma Mater" he could not countenance "her disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon...
...ridden," Carnesale said. "He's not hooked up to anything. What he is is tired.... [The absence] is as close as one can get to an order from his physicians...
...over again, with a '90s existentially angst-ridden twist," said John A. E. Pottow '93, a second year student at the Law School...
...situation with regard to the homeless seems to be more complicated because the homeless, by definition, have no homes. But this does not change the fact that every American has a right to security and protection. Even in the most crime-ridden pockets of our cities, where these problems seem at least as intractable as the problems on the Holyoke grates, the government has not responded by expelling the residents of these neighborhoods. Instead, the state fights to maintain security and peace of mind even in these stricken areas. Surely the homeless of Cambridge deserve the same treatment...
...longer much of a problem in the U.S. Instead, all our racial troubles can be traced to the fact that "black culture" is so dysfunctional it amounts to a "civilizational" gap between African Americans and the rest of society. He does not bother to differentiate between the crime-ridden urban underclass and the middle-class high achievers such as Woodson, head of the Washington-based National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and Loury, a professor at Boston University...