Word: explainers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore bob into view like a big chunk of ice on a cold gray sea. "Maybe you weren't in the loop, Al." "The point is, Al--and I don't know if you get this--but a political campaign is not just a performance for people." "Let me explain to you, Al, how the private sector works." At such times, Bradley looks at the Vice President as if Gore had suddenly morphed into an overripe mackerel; Bradley's voice, normally so flat and affectless, drips with sarcasm and a condescension that borders on contempt. Because to Bradley, who really...
...Schama, a professor of history and Mellon professor of the social sciences at Harvard before leaving to teach at Columbia in 1993, has made a career out of smoothly blending history and art history. In his most recent book, _Landscape and Memory_ (1995), Schama sought to explain what nature and geography has meant to culture, myth, art, and consciousness. In _Dead Certainties_ (1991), a book of two stories about the early United States, he analyzed the political and cultural significance of a painting by Benjamin West. (The other part of the book, "Death of a Harvard Man," dealt with...
...perfect example of the unpredictability of the ECAC. The Engineers have beaten No. 1 New Hampshire and No. 7 Boston University this season, which makes it awfully difficult to explain why RPI (12-5-1, 4-3-1) is currently tied for fifth...
Driskell did not explain or defend herself against the allegations, explaining that would come at a later time. She was, however, resolute that she will keep her post as president...
...suffering from myriad heart problems, and they seem to be more prone to lung cancer. A study released Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that a gene thought to cause lung cancer is active in more women than men. Researchers speculate that this could explain why women smokers are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer than their male smoking counterparts...