Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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UMass put two in the net to catch up, and then the two teams traded goals. With the score at 4-3 toward the closing of the fourth quarter, Harvard scored to even it at four apiece, and the two teams headed into overtime for the first time this season...
...tend to wonder why. Dallas Cowboys tycoon Jerry Jones, who says he has people highlight passages in books for him so that he doesn't have to read any, gave $1 million to the Library of Congress last Wednesday. Financier George Soros spent some $2 million last year toward making marijuana legal for medical use. Now comes leveraged-buyout mogul Ted Forstmann, who together with Wal-Mart heir John Walton is spending $100 million to give 40,000 scholarships to disadvantaged children who want an alternative to public school. This week the Children's Scholarship Fund will announce that...
Forstmann is investing in education because it's where he believes he can get the most "leverage" for his investment. For example, he points out that his top $1,600 stipend goes a long way toward the average Catholic school tuition, which is roughly $2,000 to $5,000 annually. I agree with Forstmann on the magic of Sister Mary William and company. If I'd gone to my neighborhood school instead of the parish school, it's doubtful I would have gone to college on scholarship or have the life I now do, the result of diagramming hundreds...
...According to jurors, Starr was unable to persuade even a majority of the panel that McDougal had refused to cooperate with his Whitewater grand jury. Better news for Starr came later that day in Little Rock, Ark., when federal judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that Clinton had shown contempt toward her court when he lied in a deposition about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. But for a President who told Dan Rather he doesn't consider the impeachment vote a "badge of shame," the legal slap may amount to a footnote in the saga...
...retired heart surgeon in Seattle who has recently lost his beloved wife of 50 years, Rachel, and has been told he has terminal cancer. Pragmatic to the core, he puts his dogs into his car, collects his father's gun and, on a rainy October morning, sets off toward central Washington to shoot himself. Almost instantly, though, he smashes his car and, surviving by a miracle, finds himself a scary-looking vagabond on the loose. All he has to sustain him are the kindness of strangers and the resources of his spirit and the earth...