Word: attendents
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Shapiro was formerly the president of the University of Michigan, and last year became Princeton's first Jewish president. From the outset, he began to exploit the symbolic role a university president can play. When he arrived, he invited all faculty and staff members in the university to attend his inaugural party, rather than following the traditional format of an invitation-only, black-tie event...
...demonstrates this quality from the moment she fetches the old family Dodge from the body shop and immediately has a fender bender with a delivery truck. She had been distracted by the coming activities of the day: first, to drive with Ira 90 miles to Deer Lick, Pa., to attend the funeral of Serena's husband Max; second, and more important, to detour on the way home to try to persuade her estranged daughter-in-law Fiona to return to Baltimore with her baby...
...from 1965 to 1973 came from working-class or lower-middle-class backgrounds. Roughly 25% were from families with incomes below the poverty line. Yet college-educated young men stood a 12% chance of being shipped off to the war, in contrast to 21% for men who did not attend college. "Basically the feeling was, That's for other people. It's not for us," says Lawrence Korb, an associate at the Brookings Institution and an Assistant Secretary of Defense from...
Shultz proceeded to Quito, Ecuador, to attend the inauguration of incoming President Rodrigo Borja. But there he found that left-wing politicians had installed a blatantly anti-U.S. mural in the meeting hall of the Ecuadorian Congress, where the swearing-in ceremony was to take place. Among the mural's features: a skull wearing a Nazi-like helmet emblazoned with the initials CIA. Shultz showed up anyway. "As to the insult to the United States," he said, getting in the last word, "I don't appreciate...
...funeral for Zia, a close U.S. ally, was set for Saturday. The U.S. Embassy said Secretary of State George P. Shultz would attend...