Word: stew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard College banded together in protest. Their complaint was not the academic program, University facilities or the state of world affairs, but Irish Stew...
...stew is disagreeable in taste, and to many men who simply cannot eat it, is an item of expense, since it requires the ordering of extras," wrote the undergraduates in a letter to the editors of The Crimson...
...known as the Harvard Dining Association (HDA), the organization that controlled meals at Memorial and Randall Halls at the turn of the century was a board of directors composed of six elected undergraduate representatives and three appointed by the Harvard Corporation. It was to this body that the Irish Stew protest was aimed...
...meal, students could also purchase "extras", including meats, fish, eggs, salads, fruit, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, milk, lemonade and desserts. According to the letter to The Crimson, extras were popular on days when Irish Stew was served as part of the American Plan...
...assault on the bureau's competence could not come at a worse time. The Capitol is a stew of scandals and suspicion; the Attorney General is under fire for protecting the White House; the entire top rank of the Justice Department has been hollowed out by transfers and resignations; White House counsels come and go like munchkins. At the same time, the enemy is smarter and more slippery. New technology makes white-collar crime easier to commit and harder to prosecute. Organized crime is a much more complicated threat than in the days when the FBI battled Al Capone...