Word: statement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Theory: Asking somebody into a romantic situation is equivalent to saying "Here, please trample on my ego." For Harvard students with jumbosized egos, this statement is particularly hard to make...
Calm had returned by the time Pope John Paul II appeared. In the first major papal statement on AIDS, the Pontiff called on governments "to develop and carry out a worldwide plan to combat AIDS and drug addiction." He urged patients not to despair and condemned "every form of discrimination" against them. But he warned against "morally illicit" methods of preventing AIDS -- a clear allusion to condoms -- and spoke of "abuse of sexuality," referring to homosexuality, as a cause of the spreading of AIDS. He said the crisis results from "immunodeficiency" in values...
...Lange walked away from New Zealand's top political job on his own terms, abruptly announcing his resignation as Prime Minister last August. Now serving as the country's Attorney General, Lange, 47, evidently thought he could terminate his marriage in similar fashion. Two weeks ago, he issued a statement that he and his wife of 21 years, Naomi, had separated. There would, he said, be no further comment...
...writing to correct a statement made in the November 10, 1989, Harvard Crimson Hockey Supplement. In the Harvard Hockey Quiz on page 14, you ask for the native Minnesotans on this year's squad. You correctly identify Tod Hartje and Mike Vukonich. However, you omit Craig Miskovich, who was born and raised in Minnesota. Furthermore, as the dictionary defines "native" as "being such by birth or origin," the McCormack brothers, Scott and Brian, should also have been included, even though they now live elsewhere. J. Aron Allen, who now lives in Minnesota, would not be a correct response...
...Boston hospital, where her stomach was pumped. Kitty Dukakis had in a desperate and irrational act downed some rubbing alcohol. These days liquor is forbidden in the Dukakis home. At first Kitty tried to conceal the real story, but two days later, the family doctor released a guarded statement declaring she was suffering from exhaustion and depression. Kitty, the statement explained, had lately been taking antidepressants, a perilous mix with alcohol of any sort...