Word: processed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...junior center proved to be just what the doctor ordered for the ailing Crimson offense. Coming off a scoring slump of his own that saw him tally just one assist in his previous five games, Moore collected three points in the Crimson's two contests this weekend. In the process, he helped Harvard (6-5-1 overall, 5-3-1 ECAC) claim the top spot in the league standings outright...
...fault of professors, who make a living by taking ideas seriously. It seems that in a noble attempt to inspire students to share their scholarly excitement, they have crushed great learning into mediocre bits, lest students choke on it. They have reduced great revelation to mere relevance. In the process, the great thinkers who might otherwise inspire men and women to greatness, become cold marble busts sitting mute while scores graduate without their sage teachings...
...iconoclasts who descend from him, such as Eugene McCarthy and Paul Tsongas, Bradley has a poetic cast that hides the deepest self-regard and a reluctance to mix it up that threatens to turn him into just another noble failure. "The problem with candidates who are disdainful of the process," says Garry South, chief strategist for California Governor Gray Davis, a Gore man, "is that they are disdainful of the process. The rat-a-tat Bradley despises is what politics is. This is what it takes to run for President now." Bradley sometimes seems nostalgic for a politics that never...
...equally weird happens to home movies. The Project was famous for being filmed on a camera bought at (and returned to) Circuit City, edited on a $30,000 shoestring and promoted like hell on the Internet. This holiday season, however, millions of wannabes can go through exactly the same process for less than $3,000--cast party not included...
...TEST by Nicholas Lemann. Each year, the Scholastic Assessment Test determines where hundreds of thousands of high school seniors will go to college. Lemann shows how this process developed and casts a gimlet eye on the concentration of so much power in so few hands. Is this any way to run a meritocracy...