Word: various
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff's suggestion that a referendum to decide the fate of the Undergraduate Council's windfall is hasty and unsound. The plan risks a reckless use of the money and undermines the legitimacy of an ad hoc committee created by the council to consider various options. We fear a referendum will be biased and that a better outcome will come from more careful deliberation...
Gingrich's ambitions, it turned out, were even vaster than those suggested by his five-page prospectus. A couple of years later, the House Ethics Committee released an appendix to its report on the Speaker's various ethics problems. The appendix was an amazing compendium of Gingrich's notes, speech drafts, memos and correspondence--a glimpse into the soul of Newtworld's architect during his private moments. It included, among much else, a handwritten note by Gingrich from December 1992. "Gingrich--primary mission," it read in part. "Advocate of civilization. Definer of civilization. Teacher of the rules of civilization...Leader...
...going out to scream at one another on a TV talk show. These people all know that what they share--the media's avid gaze--sets them apart from the multitudes it ignores while creating a bond among the favored that is impenetrable to the anonymous, and is, in various ways, dangerous to all concerned...
...Anti-Social Behavior" by Jonathan Jacoby (Opinion, Nov. 4): What is the justification for an individual's existence? The idea of justification appears in various places in Jacoby's op-ed, with millionaires justifying their existence through "corpulent, guilt-ridden" donations to charities, and in his claim that one's "career choice is only valid if you can justify it" to a "Tibetan political prisoner...
Just as injuries vary, so do recovery times for various athletes. Some can be on the field just days after surgery, while others, like Milbert and Larkworthy, have injuries that need much more time to heal...