Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virtues of a diverse learning environment, it is odd that we do not take advantage of the unique combination of people and places that Boston offers. Few of us have made friends at other schools since beginning our college careers. Many more of us in fact, have lost touch with high school friends at B.U. or B.C., friends who might be able to introduce us to the places in Boston that we are missing...
...officials believe Sharon's imprimatur was important in achieving progress last week during Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories. After his first session with Albright, Netanyahu brought Sharon into the meeting so that he could "touch the process," according to a senior State Department official. Last week's diplomacy produced a few steps forward, including progress on a further Israeli redeployment in the West Bank and Palestinian security guarantees. The American negotiators hope to nail down those points this week, announce a package deal and immediately begin long-awaited talks on the final...
...advent of certain technologies makes me feel that I am out of touch with humanity. The button fly, for instance, especially on men's pants. Don't we already suffer enough? Congress ought to pass legislation requiring J. Crew to print bold-faced warnings on all button-fly-trouser-related copy. That way there would be no mistakes...
...person, Mark Leyner barely resembles the fictional persona of his novels, the Lamborghini-driving, debauched literary superstar whose books can touch off riots in Third World countries. Leyner, a soft-spoken family man from Hoboken, N.J. has built a cult following from his outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of Mark Leyner's latest novel, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, is a 13-year-old boy named "Mark Leyner" who has won a $250,000 per-year fellowship for a screenplay he hasn't yet written; his father, convicted of murdering a mall guard with a cuisinart, has been placed on "Discretionary...
Some Towers residents wondered whether the heat has yet been turned on. "You touch the radiators and there's no heat coming out," said Maryvonne Neptune '01. "I'd like for them to turn [the heat...