Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Harvard sits stoically while swarms of tourists attack him with flashbulbs and greasy fingers. By night, stumbling freshman stop to perch on his pedestal, temporarily transforming Harvard's "founder" into a fountain. During Harvard-Yale weekend, John rarely escapes evil Elis' spray paint. As much as students complain about the stresses of Harvard life, it's Harvard himself who goes through hell on a daily basis...
...Harvard had been reeling until late in the third game. Roger Williams triple blocked the Crimson's middle attack to force Harvard to focus on the outside of the court...
Harvard had been reeling until late in the third game. Roger Williams triple blocked the Crimson's middle attack to force Harvard to focus on the outside of the court...
...which they had rightly vilified Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood has been extremely troublesome to me. I understand the reason for the double standard, though: Packwood and Thomas were conservatives unlikely to help women's causes in any real way--in that sense, they were fair game for attack. Clinton, on the other hand, is ostensibly "on our side" as a proponent of abortion rights, child care and equal pay. To attack him would be to weaken the standing of an "advocate" in the fight for woman's rights. I understand the argument...
...heart patients, can't afford. So Michael Sefton, who directs the tissue-engineering center at the University of Toronto, has proposed building a "heart in a box"--complete with chambers, valves and heart muscles--from cells genetically engineered to block the signal with which the body marshals cells to attack invaders. Sefton envisions spin-offs along the way--like immune-system-resistant replacement valves--to justify the project's $5 billion cost...