Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...councilor has offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
...letter by Joan Bok brings forward more than just issues of governance, it makes us wonder exactly what goes behind the closed doors of our governing bodies. It's been more than two months since alumni protested the inclusion of that letter in the election packet and the Harvard community still does not know the whole story behind the decision to write it. Indeed new facts are being revealed each day. The University should not wait until alumni sue before it releases the minutes of Overseers meetings--it is a responsibility it owes all members of the community. Meetings...
...goes without saying that these decisions invite criticism. But at a university where administrators answer only to one another, it's easy to wonder if anyone is voicing those criticisms...
...Oscar nominee for Rocky) and assorted street-corner toughs, including a junkie playwright who has befriended and apparently seduced the boy, a would-be writer. For De Niro fans, the role of Cuba evokes what he does best in film: veering unnervingly between caressing affection and blind rage. Small wonder that as the son, Macchio looks so skittish that his feet are almost never flat on the floor: he is forever on his toes, primed for flight. Early in the play De Niro makes the boy squirm by pledging to be his best friend, a pal so close he would...
...Senators are among the most cosseted people on earth. They are fussed over by constituents, lobbyists and journalists, fawned over by handlers and flunkies. The Senate is a closed and comfortable world, a place even Senators proudly call the most exclusive club in Washington. Small wonder that the very idea of allowing television cameras into their august chamber sparked the kind of weighty deliberation and heated debate normally associated with issues like the Panama Canal treaties...