Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last night, Pulitzer Prize winning-writer Ron Suskind spoke with Cedric Jennings, the subject of his new book, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League...
...College Harry R. Lewis '68 last year. "The people who are casting [council] votes do not have to represent those who elect them." But what would our Dean say if the council's recommendation had roots in a significant campus-wide dialogue? By allowing administrative policy to become subject to greater student scrutiny, the council could do more to effect changes than if they had tried directly to effect it themselves...
...YORK: Stop worrying so much about those third-quarter corporate earnings reports. The U.S. markets' best chance to shake off their October blues is the passage of a bank rescue package in Japan. And while Tokyo has been something of a watched pot on the subject for almost a year now, some encouraging action Tuesday in the Japanese parliament has raised the prospect of the measures becoming law by Friday. And that has visions of a global economic recovery dancing in Wall Street watchers' heads...
...Pfeiffer, I think both sides are missing the point. It's a lousy show, but it's too trivial to justify all the umbrage Bakewell and his allies are heaping on it. Although watching it may be an assault on human dignity, Pfeiffer is not about slavery. That subject doesn't even come up except in a couple of lame one-liners. It's more about sex, or at least juvenile double entendres about sex, and potty humor. But the central character--unlike those on the old series Martin on Fox, Def Comedy Jam on HBO and many...
Hassan's erudition and braininess can be handicaps. He is difficult to follow in dialogue, not just because of his high-speed, rumbling delivery but also because of the breadth of his conversational span. He bounces from one subject to another without pause. "You'll never get a superficial sound bite out of him," says an aide. "He immediately goes deep into substance." A longtime associate of Hassan's says he has not once managed to surprise the prince with a piece of news; Hassan has always learned it first, from an aide, the media or the Internet...