Word: ringed
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Change. The word has a powerful ring to it, and Americans have made their desire for change loud and clear--especially in the health care system...
...every generation," the Passover prayer book says, tyrannical rulers have risen up to try to destroy the Jewish people. Unfortunately, these ancient words continue to ring true. One cannot erase, nor can one advocate erasing, the memory of the Holocaust. The minds of older Jews still resound with the knowledge that the Jewish population is smaller than it was fifty years...
...third harbor tunnel was announced a few years ago, my father had predicted with chagrin that it would be named the "Thomas P. "Tip' O'Neill Tunnel." I liked it. The Tip O'Neill Tunnel. The Tip Tunnel. Tip's Tunnel to Town. It has a nice, absurd ring to it--unless, of course, you're a Republican. But in a city so unified on party lines, where Tip O'Neill seems to represent the personal interests of every man, woman and child, Republican governors don't have much choice but to go with the donkey...
...headline on a story in the October 2 issue of The Crimson said that Diane Ring had been tenured by the Law School. Actually, Ring has been appointed to a tenuretrack, assistant professor position...
...wrong--I think we're one of the closest bunch of roommates at Harvard. It might be better, then, to think of our arguments as dialogues. Or even better, dialogues of friendship. (Does that somehow ring a bell?) To give you an idea of what I mean, here's an excerpt from our most recent spate of angry, but friendly words...