Word: sagas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...November, 11 states considered ballot measures banning gay marriage. All 11 passed. There was also an election, of sorts, in January: the Golden Globe Awards. The TV awards for Best Comedy and Best Drama went, respectively, to ABC's suburban mystery Desperate Housewives and FX's plastic-surgery saga Nip/Tuck. The former is the highest-rated new series of the TV season; the latter, one of the highest-rated dramas on basic cable. Both are water-cooler shows about love, sex, fidelity and lies, mainly among heterosexual men and women...
Despite several promising negotiations and a healthy dialogue between Summers and Department of African and African American Studies Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr., West ended up leaving for Princeton with famed philosopher K. Anthony Appiah joining him not long after. By the end of the saga, the embattled University President was stuck with the criticism of having torn apart Harvard’s ascendant African American Studies department...
...Times last week seems to confirm that Summers plans to once again reevaluate his habits and the way he conducts himself in public. Patrick Healy, who previously wrote about Summers for the Globe in the late 1990s, and Sara Rimer, an education reporter who has been covering the current saga for the Times, were given an interview with the University President in his office on Feb. 18th, where he discussed what it was like to hold his job over the course of the previous month...
...visibility of Pantano's saga is due in part to its rarity. Only one other Marine has been charged with murder for actions during the Iraq war; the Army says just five of its soldiers have so far been tried and convicted for serious violent crimes committed in Iraq. Because cases like Pantano's are so unusual, they prove to be bitterly divisive, with the prosecution and the defense equally convinced that they are fighting to uphold the military's core values. In that sense, the Pantano case is a window on a larger debate within the military about...
...saga hadn’t ended quite yet. Danley missed a jumper that would have put the Quakers ahead for the first time in the game. The Tigers got a stop. Logan went to the line. The CN8 announcers made sure to remind the viewers once again that Princeton was among the top 10 best free-throw shooting teams in the county. Unfazed and unjinxed, Logan nailed the first. The second, however, met with a much less auspicious fate...