Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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ANOTHER strange--pardon me, random--system of terminology at Harvard is the ever-growing "romantic encounter" slang. In a true melting-pot method, every student has brought a way of referring to the process of seduction from his or her high school. In a true Harvard semiotic (and pathetic) argument, the number of signifiers far outstrips the mystical signified object. (In other words, we have a lot of words for it, but it doesn't happen much...
...Washington last week at his reckoning. He has legal bills of more than $3 million, has seen four years of his life wasted, and now has been sentenced to six months in jail. Chances are slim for a successful appeal of his convictions for deceiving Congress. A presidential pardon is even more remote. Poindexter is the seventh person found guilty in this sad drama and the only one so far to be ordered to jail. He may keep that distinction...
...regrettable aspect is the lack of a trial. While the settlement will save the Government the cost of a lengthy proceeding, the deal will deprive the public of a chance to hear all the evidence in the largest white- collar case in U.S. history. "This is like the Nixon pardon," charges Michael Harkins, a New York City money manager. "We needed this case to go to trial because the charges against Milken went to the heart of our financial system...
...pardon me, this is the theory according to which you were a madman acting, or gambling, or whatever you want to call...
...first is the name. Peninsulae are connected to the mainland; this publication is certainly not. These right-wingers--pardon the teminology--are not on a peninsula of political thought, but an intellectual desert island...