Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adams House prepared for its annual stab at Dionysiac frenzy, more Apollonian-minded students--or, perhaps, just those whose parents were in town for freshman parents' weekend--assembled at Sanders Theatre for an evening with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO). The attendance at the two events was probably about equal--Sanders was packed to capacity with at least 800 attendees, a number that even Martin Feldstein would envy--but the average age at HRO was probably a good 30 years older, as beaming parents and plain old Cantabridgians turned out for an evening of aesthetic elevation...
...this ancient city, dusty and undeveloped but holy to all faiths, is steeped in bloodshed and tension, a tangled maze of roadblocks, cement barricades and metal spikes manned by hundreds of Israeli soldiers to keep militant Jews and militant Palestinians apart. Both sides have grown hard as Palestinians stab and stone the settlers and Jews shoot and vandalize their neighbors in regular tit-for-tat violence...
...Broadway has faded into the Great White Where?, lots of big-time stars are doing theater. Serious stuff, like Shakespeare and Beckett. Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Keanu Reeves have all paid obeisance to the old muse. Like doing an arty low-budget film, a stab at the classics can be a rite of purification after all those grimy blockbusters...
Last week, only days after the ordinance went into effect, the board voted to amend it and allow businesses to exercise "reasonable" judgment in delivering to certain spots. Kennedy called this a "stab in the back," but board president Kevin Shelley insists the revision is needed to address legitimate issues of worker safety. Domino's spokesman Tim McIntyre points out that Domino's delivers to more inner-city areas than most chains--and says the computer system helps them do it safely...
...gossip, truly delves into issues and personalities. The prospect of an "internship" heavy on research and light on gophering in such an environment of meaningful journalism seemed irresistible, so I applied. Sadly, none of my research has led me to establish precisely what an "internship" is, though my best stab is that it entails far less in the way of remuneration than...