Word: takings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distinctions between the candidates are too blurry, their ideas too hazy or unrealistic, to justify a concrete Crimson endorsement. Even after weeks of Crimson coverage, it is hard to see just how any of the candidates plans to build a student center, take back Agassiz Theater or get more student involvement in University policy-making. We encourage you to vote--to downsize the council to streamline its inefficent proceedings and to raise the term bill to afford the council more concrete opportunities but also to consider how your favorite candidate will get his or her ideas accomplished before you exit...
After the Crimson built a 22-14 lead midway through the first half, the Mountaineers used an 8-2 run to cut the lead to 24-22, but the tough Harvard defense and the poor Mountaineer shooting allowed Harvard to take a 43-29 lead into the break...
...coaches and everyone were really pleased with the way we played," Sarah Johnson said. "We know we can't take Northeastern lightly. We'll need to play like we did on Saturday...
...funny thing about McCain's story is that it has always worked better on other people than it has worked on him. The whole hero mantle, he claims, makes his skin crawl. That may be carefully calculated modesty, but it may also reflect a nagging problem. "It doesn't take a lot of talent," he says, every chance he gets, "to intercept a surface-to-air missile with your own airplane." And yet that failure as a pilot meant that he joined the truly tiny group of men who returned home from a reviled war and were welcomed with parades...
...came back from Vietnam, he toyed briefly with "alternative plans in civilian life in politics," according to doctors who debriefed him. But McCain only toyed with the idea, choosing instead to study at the War College, become a Navy flight instructor in 1974, and then, in 1977, to take a job his father had held 20 years before, as the Navy's liaison to the Senate. In this last role, the road forked. Even as he took that job, it was clear that his Navy career was stalled. His war injuries were still bad enough to rule...