Word: america
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...recent experience as their ringer. The Lowell House bells were given to Harvard in 1930 by Richard T. Crane. They had hung in the Danailovsky Monastery in Moscow, but when they were sentenced to the melting-pot, Crane purchased them from the Soviet government and shipped them to America. At that time, the construction of Lowell House was in its finishing stages and plans for a clocktower were altered to accommodate the carillon. When the bells finally arrived, an enigmatic man called Saradjeff arrived with them to oversee their installation and playing. He is vividly described by Mason Hammond...
...concert seemed to be attended entirely by teeny-boppers of the Britney variety. And it was Halloween, so a majority of the teens were dressed in costumes, adding a surreal flavor to an already strange night.What were probably hired actors stood outside the venue with sandwich boards proclaiming "America Will Burn" and handing out humorous pamphlets declaring that God does not play the bongos. The theme of the concert I was to discover later was the end of the millennium. I knew that my friend and I, two newcomers to Guster, might as well settle in for the duration...
Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith told a crowd of students last night that America should address poverty as well as productivity in these flush economic times...
...foreign countries it helps a lot to have get the Harvard name in there; it can help [a cause] a lot," Heymann says. "In America it sometimes hurts, because it sounds and is somewhat elitist...
...Crimson (14-11, 5-2 Ivy) beat UNH (19-10, 8-1 America East) in three straight games at Lundholm Gymnasium last night, 15-10, 15-7, 15-10. Earlier this season, the Crimson snapped a three-match losing streak by defeating the Wildcats in five tough games at the University of Connecticut Tournament...