Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 73 percent of last year's offense graduated, including All-American Mike Ferucci '98, the Harvard men's lacrosse team had to wonder who would score the goals entering the season...
...Ever wonder why we say that a baseball player "flied out to center" instead of "flew out to center"? Pinker explained that the meaning of the word 'fly' has changed as the word changed from a verb to the noun 'fly ball' and then back to a verb. Over that transformation, the suffix for the past tense has also changed...
...claimed that "non-Jewish whites.... get the shaft" at Harvard where Jews and Asians represent disproportionate percentages of the student body compared to national levels. In his recently published book "A Republic, Not an Empire," Buchanan questions America's involvement in World War II. It makes you wonder, what are the Republican Party and Bush so afraid of losing...
After reading that DNA testing is freeing people who were wrongly convicted, I wonder whether anyone worries about defendants who were wrongly convicted using DNA testing. From 1989 to 1993, here in Oklahoma, DNA evidence was the only murder-trial evidence implicating a Native American defendant from my family. The initial defense included reports of flagrant mishandling of DNA evidence, but this was ignored. Only after three trials and with a court-appointed defense DNA expert was my family member acquitted. RUSSELL L. BATES Anadarko, Okla...
...charges.) A similar case is set to go to trial next spring against Onan Corp., a subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co. Says William Carr, an attorney representing workers in the case: "These plans are a profit center." Only now, considering the outcry, companies like IBM will start to wonder whether the costs outweigh the benefits...