Word: worst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like this one. The defense presented only three witnesses; its entire case lasted less than an hour. Although the jury had 11 whites and just one black, corrections officer Joe Collins, the sole black, was elected foreman. Jasper's black community hoped for the best but braced for the worst. "Even if you know something is right and that you should get a certain verdict, sometimes you don't get it," says Unav Wade, owner of a beauty salon on the courthouse square. "If it's between races, most likely the white person wins...
...presidential lull. Look for a photo spread in the next Vanity Fair Junior Parents Weekend They'll want to meet your boyfriend. They'll want to hang around your room. By Friday night, you'll want them to go home. Golden State Warriors NBA team ties league record for worst quarter ever, scoring six points. Looks like they can still choke without Latrell. Patrick J. Buchanan Our favorite xenophobe throws his hat in the ring for another run at the white House. You've got to admire his persistence. The editorial board
...well-intentioned. Our parents have traveled great distances to be here, and naturally, we want to show them a good time. But this isn't the only occasion on which this campus shifts into hard-sell mode, nor will this weekend bear witness to the grossest distortions. The worst outbreak of irrational exuberance occurs annually on Pre-Frosh Weekend, when we all collectively conspire to convince unsuspecting high schoolers that the Yard is a warm, festive place. There is just something about the presence of outsiders that inspires even Harvard's greatest detractors to put on a happy face...
...worst (which, given Malcolm's excitement and insight as a journalist, isn't very bad), the book founders on Malcolm's signature theme: the biases of the journalist as a narrator who chooses sides in the fight over which stories are true. While her last book, The Silent Woman, used the controversy over the death and estate of the suicide poet Sylvia Plath to illuminate brilliantly these questions of authority, here the justice system becomes her battleground; lawyers dispute not over matters of law but something more beautiful and strange, the power of stories to overwhelm the truth...
...scene here is terms of a supportive musical network is one of the worst I've experienced, and I think it has to do with the administration's attitude," says Tyler Gibbons '99, who plays in the Humming, a band he and several friends started in junior High...