Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surely there are few events, apart from last summer's Statue of Liberty 250th birthday party-turned-tragedy, with which to compare it. (Whose idea was it to launch the 300 Gary Coleman impersonators into hyperspace, anyway?) To be sure, it is hard to forget the party the Faculty threw in 2083 when the last kink in the Core was ironed out. More recently there was dancing in the streets when oftdelayed renovations finally brought North House into the 22nd century...
...Harvard's excesses and indulgences can be attributed to that culture, so must its successes and triumphs. Harvard cannot exist apart from America, the Earth or the solar system. Those who flock through its gates to study, live, love and learn, must remember from whence they, and the University's greatness itself, came...
That was Harvard's big riverside gala Wednesday night on the Charles. Apart from its failure to entertain, the celebration was also the only planned opportunity for Cambridge to share in the bounty of the University's 350th birthday party. Outside of traffic jams, roped off parking places, and long lines at every store and restaurant in the Square, the big blowout down by the river was Harvard's big gift to the city...
...AIDS was never a homosexual virus. It's just that the homosexual group was the first to be infected in the U.S., and they spread it among themselves." In some African countries, where homosexuality is uncommon, the virus has become so prevalent that doctors cannot single out risk groups, apart from prostitutes. In Kenya, 54% of the prostitutes from Nairobi slums carry AIDS virus antibodies...
Still, even before last week's specially scheduled get-together between the two Presidents at the White House, Washington had agreed to mend fences by focusing on the bilateral issues that bind the two countries rather than on the problems that set them apart. "The Americans called and virtually asked us what we would like to have happen during the meetings," said a close aide to De la Madrid before the meeting. "We are very encouraged because they have never behaved in this way before...