Word: facto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daily basis. They tell you why Bill Clinton sent a brooch to Monica Lewinsky, what possessed the editors at Boston Magazine to call Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Head Negro in Charge," and how a Harvard economist was lured to Columbia with $300,000. Such ex post facto explanations serve to enhance perceptions of coherence. But if coherence is such a grand objective to pursue, why does it take so much damn work...
...instead, in a deal cut by then HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, was full authority over the housing of 55,000 people--10% of the city's population--in 10 projects. The agreement allowed Tulane senior vice president Ron Mason, the new de facto head of HANO, to undertake a complete reorganization of the agency...
...Massachusetts to the White House, becoming a member of John Kennedy's first Cabinet; in New York City. In 1956, as Governor of the Constitution State, Ribicoff suspended 10,346 driver's licenses--compared with 372 in the previous year--to curb speeding; as a Senator, he combatted de facto desegregation in the North. Ribicoff prized civility, but his career was branded by a fiery, televised image of him on the podium at the 1968 Democratic Convention, railing against the "Gestapo tactics" of Chicago's police...
Under the numerous Stanley Cup Championship banners and the retired numbers of Bruin legends, the Harvard men's ice hockey team (6-9, 6-5-1 ECAC) takes the ice at the Fleet Center tonight in hopes of capturing the Beanpot and the de facto title of the best team in Boston...
...point of confusion people sometimes have is that unequal dollars spent on men's and women's sports is de facto a sign of inequity," says Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, chair of the self-study steering committee. "Not true--there is no standard that says that the dollars spent have to be the same, and in fact that would make no sense...