Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS year's celebrity-in-tweed has emerged in the unlikely shape of Paul Kennedy, a Yale history professor, who is likely to supplant Alan Bloom as superstar critic-at-large...
...Crimson is in good shape to earn home ice for the Ivy League tournament. The Crimson is tied with Dartmouth in the league standings, but the Big Green has only three games left, while Harvard has four. Princeton, one point back, also has four games left. All at home...
...While no one suggests that there is no anti-Asian discrimination, the idea of admissions offices at America's top colleges posting specific limits on the number of minorities they admit seems unlikely. This does not deny that racial discrimination exists; it only asserts that institutions which claim to shape a free, educated, and democratic society cannot afford to show bias so crudely...
Dole or Bush may be able to soothe the fears of some moderate Republicans, but the influence of Robertson's extremist disciples in the party will be undeniable. If his luck continues, Robertson could emerge from the primary season controlling a sizeable portion of the convention delegates, poised to shape the Republican platform. In the last two elections independents and defectors from the Democratic party, mesmerized by Reagan's charisma, chose to ignore the Republican Party's beholdenness to the far Right; this time they won't have that chance...
...coffee, the nurse placed a bib on Stephen, who has difficulty swallowing, gently held his head forward and poured the beverage, a sip at a time, into his mouth. Meanwhile, Hawking was responding to a question from a student who knelt to read the answer as it slowly took shape on the dim liquid-crystal screen. The conversation shifted to creativity and how mathematicians seem to reach a creative peak in their early 20s. Hawking's computer beeped. "I'm over the hill," he said, to a chorus of laughter...