Word: rake
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Cleveland, a bachelor but an improbable rake, acknowledged the child, for whom he had provided support payments to Maria Halpin all along. "Above all," Cleveland instructed his people, "tell the truth." An admirable thought. The New York Sun's Charles A. Dana wrote: "We do not believe that the American people will knowingly elect to the Presidency a coarse debauchee who would bring his harlots with him to Washington, and hire lodgings for them convenient to the White House." By October the Nation judged: "Party contests have never before reached so low a depth of degradation as this." The Democrats...
...became the basis for Streetwise, the Oscar-nominated documentary that she produced and that her husband Martin Bell directed. Mark has kept in touch with Erin ("Tiny") Blackwell, who was featured in that film, taking pictures at various moments of Tiny's precarious life. Ten of them make a rake's progress along one wall in Philadelphia. Tiny appears first as a pretty, enclosed 12-year-old, then as a pregnant teenager, then as a haggard-looking 30-year-old with a shopworn and sometimes angry mother...
Rudenstine was, in his own way, ambitious, aiming to redefine the nature of the job that was bestowed upon him, and along with it, the way the University functioned. And he aimed to rake in a pile of cash...
Working for an Internet start-up sounds like it should be a win-win situation. Succeed, and rake in cash at a steady job; fail, and at least gain experience while having fun. So why don't more Harvard students take the plunge...