Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought I'd narrow the scope a bit: What would we put in a Harvard time capsule? Provided the University still exists in 1000 years--although there is a good chance that it won't--what kind of snapshot can we offer about undergraduate life at one of America's premiere educational institutions...
...Although the Halloween fraternity party was canceled in the wake of the incident, members continued to raise money for the Leukemia Society of America...
Built in 1897, the T was the first subway in North America. Then, it was a sign of Boston's increasing industrialization and was praised for its efficiency. No longer is it the most efficient subway, though--Washington and New York have bested it. But, by contrast to its younger siblings, the T has, and builds, character. Today the T stands as a quasi-romantic critique of the soulless efficiency of its contemporaries...
...America has always needed a bogeyman...and the criminal has become the bogeyman," Ellis said...
...learned from a biography of former secretary of state Dean Acheson, which he said last week he was reading, Bush offered "that our nation's greatest export to the world has been, is and always will be the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land called America," and other generalities from his stump speech, but said nothing about Acheson. John McCain took the opportunity to jump in with a supposedly knowledgeable comment about Acheson, but more important, the senator came across as easily the more comfortable in dealing with questions...