Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Earlier, Albert Hakim, who helped divert millions of dollars in U.S. Government profits from Iranian arms sales into secret Swiss accounts and siphoned some to the contras, was permitted to cop a plea. He admitted being guilty of a mere misdemeanor: helping to buy a security fence for Oliver North's suburban Washington home. In return, felony charges against him were dropped...
...first race of the evening, the 400 medley relay, provided the blue print for the rest of the meet. Four Harvard teams beat the top Bruin team, with the Crimson foursome of Don Kidd, Dave Mainen, Paul Watson and Albert Wolf winning the race and setting a new meet record with a time...
...libelous. Chomsky has long called for a Palestinian state alongside Israel. This is the position of most of the world, a growing number of U.S. Jews and of the Israeli peace movement. Chomsky opposes Israeli policies, many based on mainstream Zionism (not the Zionism of Martin Buber and Albert Einstein), which deny Palestinians basic human and national rights. Chomsky believes in a single standard, condemning anti-Arab racism as well as anti-Semitism...
...Wexner Center is, appropriately, both grand and zany, yet unlike earlier Eisenman designs, it does not seem meanspirited. And it works. The site, shrewdly chosen by the architects, is the 48-ft.-wide space between a tidy 1979 concrete cube of a recital hall and a huge, Albert Speerish auditorium built in 1956. The new construction knits these clunky boxes into a tightly woven, slightly mad-looking but altogether sensible complex. The four soaring exhibition galleries, with a gridded glass ceiling and gridded glass wall, are deluged in natural light...
Some members of Congress were quick to take exception with the President's tight-lipped stance. Sen. Albert Gore Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) shot back: "I predict Harvard will score 16 points in the last 38 seconds, but this time Harvard will win outright...