Word: pull
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Next Tuesday is report-card day at Chicago's Harold Washington Elementary School, and Tracy Bates is already on edge. She earned A's and B's last semester in most subjects, including attendance and presentable uniforms. But she's been working to pull up the D she got in homework monitoring. Bates, you see, is a 39-year-old stay-at-home mom whose daughter is a fifth-grader at Harold Washington...
...Harvard headed to California, where the Crimson was supposed to play strong opponents, including No. 1 Stanford, Cal and Pacific, balanced by a relatively easy Santa Clara team. Whether it was the jetlag or the sun, Harvard dropped the match to Santa Clara and was only able to pull out a victory over Pacific. Overall, the trip contributed to Harvard's slide in the national rankings...
...nearby plaque quotes its Puritan namesake in the gilded letters of her prose: "I came into this Country, where I found a new World and new manners at which my heart rose." Inspirational--until you realize that the powers-that-be seem to be trying to pull a fast one on us. I came across the quote while studying for oral exams, and learned that Bradstreet was describing not her excitement, but instead her utter dread about her new, strange home. Apparently, Porter University Professor Helen Vendler explained this context quickly to the assembled crowd during the celebratory weekend. Unfortunately...
...criteria for the first permanent dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study were formidable. President Neil L. Rudenstine was looking for a middle-aged female academic with solid professional credentials, a commitment to gender issues, leadership ability and administrative talent, who was willing to pull up stakes, move to Cambridge and sort through the host of pressing decisions awaiting a new dean...
Despite the Crimson's inability to pull off a major upset, Harvard gave numerous national contenders serious scares in the extremely competitive Ivy League...