Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Juan Ponce de Leon explores Florida in search of the fountain of youth...
...century later, in the interminable search for a palatable meal in the dining halls, College students empathize with these Harvard students of yesteryear...
Whitman's exuberant optimism and Pase's quiet resignation--these are the cadences that our Highway 50 team is listening for. "We're trying to discover what unites and divides the nation, besides the road," says Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy. That search took our journalists last week to high schools, truck shops, bowling alleys and bars. They explored a 2,000-year-old Indian burial mound, a doll factory, an FBI lab and a two-alarm fire. The first dispatch from the Greyhound appears in this week's issue. Look for our full report next month...
While driving their son Patrick to school May 1, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver were hounded by two photographers. After hitting the couple's Mercedes, the photogs shoved a 59-year-old school employee. The police began a search for the two, but last week the guerrilla lensmen turned themselves in, anticipating charges of hit and run, reckless driving and assault...
...also means that we will have to accept certain mundanities of life outside a university like Harvard. Academic discourse and the search for intellectual freedom may not prevail wherever we find ourselves. The brightest stars in the pantheon of scholarship will no longer offer themselves up for our perusal twice a week at 11 a.m. We will have to content ourselves with libraries whose holdings may be less than infinite. We will no longer take for granted our membership in an enclave where truth is the highest virtue and the search for it is amply supported...