Word: handing
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...Vidal knows politics first-hand. He grew up in Washington, D.C., where his grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as senator from Oklahoma; Vidal's father was FDR's director of air commerce. His stepsister was Jackie Kennedy, and through her he became a friend of Jack Kennedy. Vidal himself was an unsuccessful candidate for a congressional seat in 1960, a race in which he was endorsed by friend and neighbor Eleanor Roosevelt. Some of "The Best Man" came straight out of this background. "I showed the play to Jack [Kennedy] and he gave me a couple of lines," Vidal recalls...
...loss to Texas A&M the previous week. Harvard had much working against its favor in that opening game, not least of which was the fact that it had only been back on campus practicing for just over a week. The Aggies, on the other hand, already had several games under their belts by then...
HUPD and the Ad Board work hand-in-hand. Every time HUPD writes a report about a student--an incident report much like a standard police report--the Dean of Harvard College and either the Freshmen Dean's Office or the student's House office gets a copy...
...ample resources on hand," he said. "We weren't in a desperate situation. If no one had responded I would have become worried. But we would not have been worried for 2 or 3 years...
...shape of the economy. The rise of the new economy and the increased productivity that its technology brought were more responsible than anything either branch of government could devise. Yet it was the Republicans' angry prodding--and the occasional shut-down of the government--that forced Clinton's hand in addressing fiscal responsibility...