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Poor Zoe Baird. Her name has already entered the language as a synonym for trouble. Along with "the Gary Hart syndrome," signifying compulsive womanizing, we now have "the Zoe Baird problem," meaning child-care infractions. Its chief usage is in the accusative: "Do you have a Zoe Baird problem?" That was the question that brought down Kimba Wood as a candidate for Attorney General (even though her answer was "No"). It was also the question that helped pluck the childless and unmarried Janet Reno from relative obscurity to become the President's nominee for the job. No kids, no nanny...
Harvard has become a synonym for hypocrisy--at least when it comes to accepting credits for study abroad programs. Harvard's idea of international education is bringing students from around the world to Cambridge, not sending its students out to the world. Harvard accepts credit from very particular (and usually Eurocentric) study abroad programs that focus on immersion in one particular country, rather than on programs that offer a holistic introduction to the world, like the University of Pittsburgh's Semester...
Semester at Sea has become a synonym for challenge. Every second was part of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. As a result, I got no more than four hours of sleep a night on the ship and no more than a total of six hours of sleep per port. When I did sleep in port, it was usually during airplane, train or, in certain instances, rickshaw rides--and this time was often used to complete course readings, which averaged over 85 pages...
...world where countries seem to be breaking down and falling apart, there is one that may actually be coming back together. It is Cyprus, whose very name has for more than 30 years been a synonym for tribal hatred, religious strife and diplomatic failure. Intensive negotiations at the United Nations this fall may finally yield a breakthrough...
...been killed by Palestinians in that time. But a spate of armed assaults by Arabs last year prompted the army to expand the role of undercover units, which were first deployed against the intifadeh in 1988. Today the sayarot -- their predecessors made the raid on Entebbe in 1976 a synonym for military derring-do -- are conducting 200 or more operations every day in the occupied territories, though many of those sorties have limited objectives, such as gathering intelligence or spotting rock throwers...