Word: amherst
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Ways and Means killed a similar bill last year by a single vote. But aides to Graham and Senate cosponsor John W. Olver (D-Amherst) gave the current version a much better chance. They blamed their previous failure on hasty lobbying and incomplete attendance during the crucial vote, rather than concerted opposition...
Scholars participating in the working groups include Harvard Divinity School Professor of Theology Preston N. Williams, Amherst College Professor David W. Willis, and University of Paris Professor Genevieve Fabre and Queens College Professor Melvin Dixon...
...discriminates. This act strengthens the government's commitment and ability to ensure equality for its citizens. It is a reassuring sign at a time when racial tension has grown without check, in such incidences of white on Black violence as the Howard Beach murder or the conflicts at UMass-Amherst...
...AMHERST--Three white students have been ordered to undergo an alcohol education program, and two of them have been placed on disciplinary probation following an alleged attack on two Black students at the University of Massachusetts, a university spokeswoman said today...
Achebe, currently a visiting professor ofEnglish at the University ofMassachusetts-Amherst, has published four othernovels in addition to poetry, essays andchildren's books