Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...games this coming weekend against Cornell and Colgate at Bright Center, however, are two more chances for Harvard to prove its mettle...
...freezing outside, and these guys are as bright as chipmunks, singing in putrid unison and forming a sea of ear-to-ear grins. There's something wrong with anybody who can be this happy this early in the morning...
...best recollection, our editorials have never disputed that there are a great many bright people at Harvard. Nor have we argued that Harvard should limit its consideration to SAT scores, or even to SAT scores and class ranks. We simply insist that Harvard stop granting unwarranted special treatment to those who have a good jump shot or a Harvard pedigree. We also insist that Harvard be completely forthright about these policies--a request that has yet to be granted...
More than a thousand bargain hunters and curiosity seekers showed up under a bright orange-and-white tent 10 miles outside Reno last week to watch the ultimate strip show at the legendary Mustang Ranch. The Internal Revenue Service put the 330-acre establishment, Nevada's oldest legal bordello, on the auction block when its previous owners failed to pay $13 million in back taxes. Going, going, gone -- for $1.5 million -- was the 104-room hot-sheet palace itself (actually two pink stucco buildings with a guard tower). Also gaveled off, for about $500,000 more, were such appointments...
Thirteen hours later, Watson is co-starring with Mayor Kathryn Whitmire at a community meeting in Acres Homes, a high-crime black neighborhood. Whitmire and Watson are an odd pair, two very different feminist success stories. Dressed in bright colors, the two-term mayor is poised, polished and political. The chief, who in February became the first woman to head a major urban police department, is passionate, very pregnant and plainclothed in a black maternity dress. "The most important job in the police department is not my job," she says, "but the uniformed officer on the street. And right...