Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People not only choose sides, they also choose roles. Representative Bob Inglis, raw from his November loss to Senator Fritz Hollings, returned as the voice of the Lord, the Old Testament one. Representative Lindsey Graham's early turn as Hamlet turned out to be a search for an unoccupied spot on the opinion spectrum that might land him on Meet the Press. He found a "legal technicality" that allowed him to vote against one article, earning him the valuable CONSERVATIVE BUCKS HIS PARTY headline in the New York Times...
...rankings released last week, Black Enterprise magazine placed Harvard among the top 50 schools in the nation for black students. After surveying more than a thousand black professionals, the magazine concluded that because of the high quality of academic experience, Harvard offers black students, the University merited the 28th spot on the list...
Meanwhile, No. 4 Kansas State, which lost one game, in double overtime, no less, didn't even get a BCS spot and is playing in the Alamo Bowl. For a team that went into the last week of the season ranked No. 1, this is worse than kissing your sister or whatever else those kinky Yalies have come up with...
...like a climb up Mount Sinai. It is a bracing ascent over starkly arid terrain, the ancient volcanic rock giving way to deep chasms, full of darkness and danger. But the view can be spectacular: the light splaying in many hues at sunrise as the visitor reaches the spot where the Bible says Moses received the word of the Lord. The venerated images rush to mind: the burning bush, the parted sea, the dry rock bursting with water, manna...
...former Tennessee Congressman and Senator and father of the Vice President; in Carthage. A key mover behind the interstate highway system and a Southern liberal who took unpopular stands against segregation and the Vietnam War, he once advised his son not to settle for the No. 2 spot, calling it a "dead-end street...