Word: scar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make this kind of effort less financially painful is to make the scar of gender-inequality an issue with donors. Indeed, the ongoing $2.1 billion campaign makes scarcely any mention of this persistent problem. But it is the prerogatives emphasized in fund-raising drives like this one that determine what kind of University Harvard will become. If President Rudenstine and Dean Knowles are really as distressed about the lack of gender proportionality in the Faculty as they purport to be, they must make a point of emphasizing the need for funds earmarked for closing the gender gap. And this effort...
...pregnancy-related ailment), her hubby ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER checked himself in for voluntary heart surgery. He had a congenital defect in his aortic valve--the valve that stops blood from going back into the heart. Don't fret about those pecs, though. He's fine, and doctors say the scar will be barely noticeable...
...Flipper, which Universal was expecting to be one of its big summer movies for 1996, writer-director Alan Shapiro was approached by the studio's merchandising department. The executives had a problem: there were only three characters in the film suitable for licensing to stuffed-animal makers--Flipper, Scar the Hammerhead Shark and Pete the Pelican. Toy manufacturers were demanding a fourth to round out the Flipper line. "But the movie's been shot," Shapiro argued. "It's too late to add a fourth character." Nevertheless, Shapiro and the executives screened a rough cut of the film and noticed...
...pessimist would conclude that the Crimson is choking just as the season enters its critical phase. According to this view, the loss to B.C. left a mental scar. Now, the Crimson is so anxious with a lead that it has become nearly impossible for the team to close out a game...
...long scar, caused by a skateboarding accident in 1992, runs vertically down McCarthy's left leg. He tore his medial colateral and anterior cruciate ligaments while attempting to execute an ollie down a bank and now wears a padded brace to stabilize his knee...