Word: proving
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Seizaburo Sato, a foreign policy analyst and adviser to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, agrees. "The talk of constitutional constraints ^ and demons of the past is all one big alibi," he says. "We mustn't miss a golden opportunity to prove we recognize our responsibilities...
...guise as TV journalist, Jackson will have to prove that he can elicit the opinions of others and not just expound on his own. He will, moreover, have to demonstrate that his TV platform is not simply a political launching pad. Does Jackson consider his new bully pulpit a key to the White House? "I see this as a key to all houses," he replies. "Everybody's house will see this." Sounds suspiciously like...
Lasting enmities have been born in queues, as have fast friendships. Nikolai and Lena met as students while waiting for a table in a popular cafe. They never got inside, but 20 years of wedded bliss and two children prove that some marriages are made not in heaven but in line...
...Crimson and the Huskies last met three years ago in what would prove to be a pivotal game in Harvard's 1987 season. Harvard's 27-24 victory propelled the Tom Yohe and Tony Hinz-led Crimson to an Ivy championship season...
SOME offer the standard argument that first-year students gain coddled, preferential treatment for courses: they have first-year seminars and receive occasional favoritism in Core lotteries. But these small perks are the exceptions that prove the rule. The academic system for Harvard undergraduates seems designed to frustrate intellectual curiousity and to keep first-year students safely in monstrous, impersonal, general introductory classes and exclusively first-year classes like Expository Writing and seminars...