Word: westing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With three winners each, West Point Military Academy and Yale both outpaced Harvard's Rhodes crop. Including Javaras and Kuziemko, 295 Harvard students have won the scholarship--a total that exceeds all other universities...
...power over human imagination and hope in the near and distant future? If benign Christian institutions and the capacity to believe in a God who loves his creation should weaken fatally, if the artistic inspiration of the figure of Jesus should wane--as it has in some of the West today--are the existential promises of his teaching sufficient to maintain a world faith? What else has he to offer a ferociously diverse but rapidly shrinking planet...
...visibility. But the First Lady of Palestine surely didn't have in mind her starring role in a new ad sponsored by the Washington-based Jewish Republican Coalition. Taking a swipe at U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton, the TV spot shows Mrs. Clinton, on a recent trip to the West Bank, listening blank-faced to provocative anti-Israeli comments by Mrs. Arafat and then pecking her on the cheek. It's clear what the viewer is meant to think: Yech...
...beautiful women. Perhaps Stein's oddest avocation is being a financial guru to hookers. "Aside from practicing pimps, nobody knows as many call girls as I do," he says. It began when Stein was a columnist for the Journal, spending his afternoons by the pool in his West Hollywood apartment building, which was populated by call girls. "I think I put a couple of them in Berkshire Hathaway and made them a lot of money," he says. His skills are so well known, he boasts, that pros he's never met spot him at bars and ask about mutual funds...
...Fortunately, West still holds a greater influence over both Harvard and society in general than the likes of Horowitz. The Reader is far from a perfect book: his style is easy to criticize, and some of his ideas do come across as muddled and abstract. However, it is on the whole a very positive book, detailing a personal struggle with the many facets of modern existence and questioning how life should be lived in the face of these obstacles. Perhaps if David Horowitz were to undergo the same critical self-examination of his own life and ideas, he would find...