Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in Dublin, O'Connor watched her parents split up "quite violently" when she was eight. Her brother responded to the domestic tumult by "fainting all the time." O'Connor's sister began having extensive conversations with strangers in bus stations. And Sinead turned wild. She was busted for shoplifting and sent off first to reform school, then to boarding school. By the time her mother died in a car crash, her daughter hadn't seen her for nearly two years. "Her life never got better," O'Connor says, "and I suppose it was just as well that she died...
Humor is often in short supply in books by writers who assert they are funny. This is not second grade, and the territory Wasserstein covers has been strip-mined by those who preceded her -- Nora Ephron, Ellen Goodman and Anna Quindlen. A piece about the split between women who shave their legs and those who don't would have to come up with some dazzling insights to merit another look. Ditto painted nails, being fat or single...
Things started off well when the Crimson's A squad (Harvard's varsity split into two squads for Saturday's action) came from behind in its first game to beat a much-improved Brown team, 11-10. The B team beat MIT's B club team, 11-7, in its first game and then practically drowned the Engineers in its second game, 18-6. In between the two B team games, MIT easily sank Brown...
Harvard faces a resilient, determined lineup highlighted by one toprated singles player, Danielle Durak--the East's second-ranked player. Harvard's second-seeded singles player, Amy deLone split a pair of matches with Durak in the fall...
...Harvard Debate Council snagged its first national championship since 1985 this week, narrowly besting its year-long rival, the University of Redlands, by a 3-2 split decision...