Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trojans were ranked No. 1 in both Baseball America and Baseball Weekly's preseason polls, before a smattering of injuries sapped them early, leading to a 4-11 start. USC had its starting lineup intact for only three of its first 20 games...
Over the next few weeks, Harvard students will travel all over the country and the world--working with NGOs in Bangladesh, creating economic policy in Panama and helping oust guerillas in South America. Some will surely don pumps or a tie and head over to Wall Street to try out their corporate selves. Other students will stay in Cambridge or Boston and continue where they left off at the end of the semester, staffing the numerous successful summer Phillips Brooks House Association programs. Whatever adventures await us this summer, they will almost always involve joining a community...
...unfortunate truth today is that true diversity of opinion and culture seldom exists in America. Year by year we watch as the tyranny of the majority gradually homogenizes our culture. The election proposed by Brian A. Shillinglaw '01 and Miranda E. W. Worthem '01 would do nothing but eliminate one of the last bastions of true intellectual diversity permitted on the Harvard campus...
...that it sometimes takes tragedy to draw our attention to widespread problems in America, but that has been the case in the aftermath of the Littleton, Colo., massacre last month. In the wake of the shooting, Congress has responded with long overdue gun control measures designed to keep guns out of the hands of juveniles...
...course, in nuclear war, it's hard to imagine that mattering all that much. Indeed, if the current furor has any useful purpose, it might be to remind U.S. weaponry hawks that very little of the feverish work that goes on in Los Alamos these days is actually improving America's ability to win a war. "I liken it to teenagers working on their cars," says Thompson. "It's a matter of pride to have a better, faster car with a souped-up engine that puts all your friends' to shame. But you can still...