Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started by explaining the search committee process: the seven person group formed this summer and, while receiving "numbers" of applications, seriously considered only "about 15" candidates. All the while, the process was kept quiet so as not to take any excitement away from Restic's last season, Cleary said...
...information has been scarcer. Last fall, when Harvard administrators like Provost Jerry R. Green and then-Vice President for Government Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck were falling all over themselves to get to the front of the line of those endorsing Bill Clinton for president, Rudenstine kept quiet. He said he didn't think it was right for the president of Harvard to take sides in that partisan election...
...Everyone in the department is aware of thecase," said Officer Robert Kotowski, president ofthe police officers' union. "But no one has anyknowledge of particulars. It's going to beinteresting to see the outcome."CrimsonJohn C. MitchellEven the quiet Everett St. Garage becameembroiled in yesterday's trial of two Universitysecurity guards accused of stealing water coolersfrom the Law School. Elizabeth Davidson, who worksas a food services director at Harvard Law School,testified yesterday that, in a conversation on thegarage phone, guard George Perry admitted to herthat he had taken her set of keys to Harvardbuildings. University police had suspected thatPerry used...
...happens, in Southern California, in a quiet, relatively uninternational town, but I could as easily be in Vancouver or Sydney or London or Hong Kong. All the world's a rainbow coalition, more and more; the whole planet, you might say, is going global. When I fly to Toronto, or Paris, or Singapore, I disembark in a world as hyphenated as the one I left. More and more of the globe looks like America, but an America that is itself looking more and more like the rest of the globe. Los Angeles famously teaches 82 different languages in its schools...
Even in places where it is easy to hide, some illegals are actively pursuing legitimacy. Quiet and self-effacing, H. Lin, 30, a young factory worker from the rural province of Fujian in China, left his family behind in the old country earlier this year to seek his fortune in America. For a fee of $30,000, which he borrowed, he was smuggled into the country by plane at Honolulu. Confronted by the INS, Lin claimed political asylum, boarded another plane and promptly disappeared into the nearly impenetrable subculture of New York City's Chinatown...