Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perennial faces in the news includes outspoken professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the author of Chutzpah who recently made headlines for leading Mike Tyson's appeal. Ron Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, a film based on Dersh's defense of Rhode Island aristocrat Claus von Bulow...
...night they appear, prefects lead theircharges on a wild goose chase through the Yard.They are supposed to be competing against all theother dorms in this Hunt for the Yard Plate, afancy-looking silver platter. But with 1600 bodiestearing through the dark and screamingHolworthy/Thayer/Canaday Rules!, it isanyone's guess who wins...
Americans like to accuse their opponents of forming an elite; it's one of the hoariest cliches of democracy. But Quayle was born not with a mere silver spoon but with a silver ladle in his mouth. He is the millionaire son of media millionaires, imbued with the deepest tribal mores of the Midwestern country club, raised to office by presidential patronage. For such a man to complain about elitism, and media elitism in particular, seems forced. There is something distinctly unbecoming about Quayle's efforts to present himself as a man of the people...
...robustly healthy mother while acting simultaneously as consort to a superstar formed the basis of a dour midlife crisis. The new book makes much of the prince's relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles, 43, the wife of a brigadier who is himself a courtier, with the title of Silver Stick in Waiting to the Queen. Camilla is one of Charles' old flames, dating from his lengthy bachelor days, when he courted classy girls enthusiastically but did not propose...
...Former Eliot House resident Paul EWylie '91 wins the silver medal in men's figureskating at the Winter Olympics in Albertville,France...