Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This delicate balance always threatens to tip, and when it does, cities can | spiral into an anarchy that defies all attempts at reversal. From Belfast, where religious hatred spawns terror, to Los Angeles, where the acquittal of four white policemen accused of beating a black motorist triggered last April's rampage of looting and arson, city dwellers have paid a horrible price when ethnic and political tensions boiled to the surface. When fighting began in Beirut in 1974, merchants spoke confidently of a return to normality within months. Few Lebanese expected that strife would still rule their lives 18 years...
...power play, Crimson Co-Captains Kim Landry and Joey Alissi had a 2-on-1 break with a chance to cut the margin to one. But Landry's shot sailed harmlessly wide of goalie Sarah Millet, and Harvard would not threaten again until Landry's power play tip-in with 28 seconds remaining ended the scoring...
...those goals, however, was the eventual game winner: a tip-in by freshman forward Tom Holmes following a junior Brian Farrell slap shot from the point. Holmes scored his first two collegiate goals in the win. Captain Ted Drury had two assists and a goal...
...Shaquille O'Neal. Magic, who with Larry Bird made the N.B.A.'s '80s a decade of dazzle, brought that era to an end with his (and Bird's) retirement. But pro basketball soon found a figure worthy of Johnson's number: O'Neal, a superstar force from the first tip-off, and spearhead of the league's most glamorous freshman class since 1979. O'Neal's team: the Orlando Magic, of course...
...point about admissions tips is similarly disingenuous. Athletes receive tips because sports are a significant portion of college life and a primary motivator in alumni donations--more so than with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra or the Harvard Advocate. Unfortunately, that's the way it is. By providing a tip, perhaps a stronger one than goes to "stars" in other fields, the admissions office is recognizing a fundamental societal reality...