Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some people say they wouldn't be happy without real seasons. I felt that way too when I came to the East Coast as a first-year. Fall! I thought, imagining crunching through the autumn leaves. Snow! I thought, recalling the coziness of "It's a Wonderful Life." Winter! I thought, envisioning a chestnut-roasting afternoon tea in the middle of Harvard Yard...
...event especialy commemorated the first game played in 1875, The Crimson said: "No one could have foreseen that that game was to initiate the sport which now sets the whole nation in a frenzy every autumn...
...LIKE THE AUTUMN CHERRY tree, in full flower. Approaching her 20th anniversary at ABC, Barbara Walters has never seemed more splendid. In the past few months, she has landed interviews with Colin Powell, Christopher Reeve, Robert Packwood, Susan Smith's ex-husband, Hugh Grant's girlfriend and, on O.J. Day, the trifecta of Kato Kaelin, Robert Kardashian and a very disgruntled Robert Shapiro. In the next few weeks, she will host two of her patented, popular prime-time hours, The 10 Most Fascinating People of 1995 and her 60th Barbara Walters Special. Her Friday-night showcase, 20/20, is even beating...
With the Simpson verdict and with the country about to turn the autumn corner into the 1996 presidential election, I keep returning to the sentiment that Americans could find, if they were looking, in the old hymn "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground." King was right: The content of one's character, not the color of one's skin, is what matters. Stop defining people by color, by groups (blacks, whites, Asians, gays). Stop practicing the politics of tribal identity. But you would have to rescind a universe of political correctness and poisonous identity politics in order to restore...
There is nothing wrong with a career in investment banking or consulting; after graduation, working in those fields can provide students with opportunities to travel around the world, manage money and earn a comfortable living. The annual autumn recruiting sessions attest to these fields' popularity among Harvard students, and any Harvard career fair would be amiss not to feature these companies prominently. Yet a career fair with nearly two-thirds of its offerings in those fields short-changes those Harvard students considering doing something else with their lives...