Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...four-year-old. But a dark cloud hung . over her future. She suffered from ADA deficiency, the rare, incurable and deadly genetic disease that shuts down the immune system -- a disorder similar to the one that in 1984 finally claimed the life of David, the famous but unfortunate "bubble boy." Only the weekly injection of a newly developed drug seemed to stand between the little girl and the same fate...
Pick an Elvis, any Elvis at all. There's the mythic bad boy mimed, most recently, by Nicolas Cage in Wild at Heart. There is the great white whale with the red neck harpooned by Albert Goldman in his notorious unauthorized biography. Or there is the sweet prince of dreams, who provides the sound track for the heroine's housework in Alice Hoffman's recent Seventh Heaven...
...foreign defenders have saved Saudi Arabia from Saddam so far, but at the same time the influx of troops has underscored the country's vulnerability. Like the boy who called the bluff on the emperor's new clothes, the Iraqi leader made it plain that Saudi Arabia was not quite the muscular Arab power it appeared to be. "Saddam showed that we are a paper tiger," notes an economist in Riyadh. "Our ability to defend ourselves is a joke." That realization augurs a revamping of the Saudi military. Less easily fixed is the ! breach of the implicit contract between...
...Monster Cores. Don't those lottery policies look great! Preferred admission to seniors and first-years. Oh boy! Preferred admission to a class with 700 students, 600 first-years, 10 section leaders, no papers, a big-name professor with one office hour, and a topic as broad and shallow as the Mississippi Delta. That's my idea of intellectual excitement...
...become a not-so-illustrious chapter in the university's illustrious past--many clubs are no longer exclusive, and some students entirely reject the clubs. A recent court decision requiring the two remaining all-male clubs to admit women is the final blow to this bastion of the old boy network...