Word: ago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three days ago, the struggling Crimson had been hoping for consistent pitching. Hoping for comebacks. Hoping for big hits. Hoping for big innings. Hoping for wins...
Time to regroup against the Engineers. And the Crimson, which defeated MIT, 12-10, at the MIT Invitational two weeks ago, did just that. Led by Gillian Salton and Tara Gustilo, Harvard came back against the Engineers...
Three days ago, the Harvard baseball team was living in the EIBL basement. But over the weekend the Crimson had a change of address...
...social injustices of the past can be mollified with cash and property payments. In 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Federal Government to pay some $122 million to eight tribes of Sioux Indians to make up for the illegal seizure of their tribal lands in 1877. Two years ago, Japanese Americans forced into internment camps during World War II were awarded checks for $20,000. Now some African Americans want cash compensation for the slavery their ancestors endured. "We call for reparations," declared a resolution passed at the African-American summit in New Orleans last week. "If they...
...Beijing to Tiananmen Square in the city's center. It was the latest and by far the largest in a series of protests that began when students gathered on April 16 to mourn the death of former Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, whose tolerance of demonstrations two years ago precipitated his downfall. The marchers, divided into well-organized ranks according to their school, chanted and waved red and white banners. When they tired of singing the Internationale and the national anthem, the students launched into homemade ditties. To the tune of the French song Frere Jacques, they warbled...