Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last summer, and when he stopped,? prison officials decided to forcibly medicate him.? That puts the state of Arkansas in a very dicey box. "In the majority of similar cases across the country, courts do not allow insane people to be put to death," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne.? "Nor have courts upheld the right of states to medicate prisoners so that they will be sane enough to execute...
...along these lines that the circumstantial humor of The Cocktail Party thrives. Reminiscent of latter-day sitcom standards, much of its humor is based on the sudden ironic entrance of various cast members. For example, in the midst of a weighty discussion between the "Unidentified Guest" and Edward Chamberlayne (Sam Shaw '99), the troubled husband whose marriage is the subject of the play, the hysterical, aunt-like Julia (Emily Stone '99) rushes in to retrieve her lost umbrella and maternally questions Edward about his seemingly drunken companion. We wish we could parrot her seeming naivete...
...many graduates of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) in recent years, working for Uncle Sam was an intimidating prospect; high levels of debt from loans and low government salaries push many an aspiring public servant toward a career in consulting...
...enforces the more sexual meaning of "to hook up," saying that "hooking up definitely implies a horizontal position." And in addition to the general perception of "making out" as a lesser act, there is a certain stigma connecting the expression to the late 1950s and drive-ins, or as Sam T. Mouton '01 angrily declares, "Making out is so Junior High." Allison C. Connolly '01 agrees that "it's very seventh grade--it was big time in seventh grade, like second base...
...call to arms came to Silicon Valley last night. Some 36 hours had elapsed since Netscape Communications Corp. did the unimaginable -- release, for free, its coveted source code -- and throughout the Valley, geeks were celebrating as if crateloads of tea had been dumped into Boston Harbor. Sam Ockman, who was running last night's Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, introduced Marc Andreessen to the developers who thronged in to hear him. "I welcome you to our struggle for world domination, and I crown you General Andreessen," he said. "We will win the war -- because nobody expects open-source software...