Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Davis' case, that service began in 1967, when, with a history degree from Stanford and a law degree from Columbia, he pulled his ROTC duty. It was in Vietnam, he says, that he saw America for the first time, and it changed him. "I was really offended by the notion that this war was being fought largely by minorities and Southern whites," he said. Three years later, the whitest man in America was finance director for the mayoral campaign of a black man--Tom Bradley of Los Angeles. His next job was chief of staff for Jerry Brown, and Davis...
...thought with disdain that this movie surely would be just another horrifically cheesy Mighty Ducks failure. Mystery, Alaska is easily the surprise of the early fall movie line-up. After a rather slow start, the movie's plot and humor accelerate into a charming satire of small town America...
Across the Yard from recruiting meetings at the Faculty Club, Teach for America (TFA), an AmeriCorps program, is showing some students that there are worthy careers outside of investment banking and consulting...
Harvard was finally rewarded with just 47 seconds left in regulation, when one of its fabulous freshmen stepped up to the task. Beth Totman, who was named to Soccer America's Team of the Week, broke the scoreless deadlock and gave Harvard...
...TIME senior science editor Phil Elmer-DeWitt wonders about that - "I?d like to see them replicate this in a lab. I give a lot more credence to the brain cancer theory," he says - but that?s almost beside the point. Has a cigarette-style war over America?s favorite new toy finally begun? "There is no evidence whatsoever that a wireless phone has ever caused ignition or explosion at a gas station anywhere in the world," scoffed Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, in a written statement. But to DeWitt, that might as well have come...