Word: witching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Union President Donene M. Williams, sporting a pointed witch's hat, stood next to an oblong cardboard box painted with flames...
...William Stoughton, after whom Stoughton Hall is named, was the chief justice of the witch trials. Two treasurers of Harvard, Thomas Danforth and John Richards, acted as judges on the witchcraft court, along with their Harvard classmate Samuel Sewell...
Thomas Brattle, a classmate of Danforth and Richards, was one of the critics of the proceedings. The witch trials were finally brought to an end by the Reverend Increase Mather, a Harvard president...
...however, the court is not conducting a witch-hunt. William Green Miller, president of the Committee on American-Russian Relations, has attended the proceedings and is convinced that the aim "is not to establish the culpability of individuals but the illegitimacy of the old system...
CRITICS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRAtion call the affair "Iraqgate." The Administration's defenders call it a "witch hunt." Others call it a confusing mess. But whatever the term, the overeager attempts by the Reagan and Bush administrations to make friends with Iraq in the years before the Persian Gulf War -- and later attempts to contain the political damage of that failed policy -- have become yet another problem for George Bush as he struggles against increasingly heavy odds to win a second term...