Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-four juniors received a one page letter on Monday inviting them to join the prestigious Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a national academic honor society. Only 24 out of the entire class of about 1,600 are selected in the first round...
...especially surprised to win it on the first round, it's a big deal to happen as a junior," Brown said...
Forty-eight more will be selected in the fall of senior year, with the final, largest round of elections taking place in a spring senior induction...
Springer, 54, launched his talk show in 1991, having served as mayor of Cincinnati in his early 30s and then anchoring a local news show there. With curly red hair, round glasses and slightly nasal voice, he has a style that is less empathic than Phil Donahue's and less excitable than Geraldo Rivera's. He's the intelligent, slightly smarmy observer of the antics around him. This is the peak of his career, but that doesn't mean he's getting as rich as Winfrey. Major advertisers like Procter & Gamble shun his show, which can charge only about...
...shoulders of giants. Long before his show became a hit, Donahue and Winfrey were walking around the audience while their guests shared their personal tales. Lake, whose show debuted in 1993, refined the formula by adding confrontation. With her success came a clutch of imitators and a new round of fretting about trash television. But with all the competition, ratings began to decline, and by 1996, hosts like Rivera and Lake were taking the pledge to become more high-minded. They were encouraged by the experience of Jenny Jones, one of whose guests murdered another. These shifts and the success...