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...Harvard began its trip to California with a Friday night matchup against Stanford on the Cardinal home turf of Palo Alto. Despite potential jet lag as well as the hostile crowd, the Crimson put forth one of its best efforts of the season, hanging tough with the Cardinal for the entire match...
More than 50 women attended the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (RCAA) event in order to push the two about the Institute's future. The question-and-answer session is part of a nationwide tour Dunn began when she traveled to Chicago last Wednesday...
...early 1970s, Bradley traveled to Missouri to test the political waters. The state's Democratic machine offered to back him for state treasurer, but he turned the offer down; he wasn't interested in dues paying. As his Knicks career wound down in 1977, Bradley began preparing for a '78 Senate run from New Jersey, where he and Ernestine had moved a few years before. He was a celebrity, but he didn't have strong ties to the state's Democratic Party. "Bill was always in the party but never of the party," says Senator Robert Torricelli, who succeeded...
...Tibetan clash with the Chinese authorities was increasing. In 1957-58, I devoted myself to academics. I finished my final examination in religious studies in 1959. By then the crisis had almost reached Lhasa. I had to leave. Accompanied only by my closest advisers and my immediate family, I began my journey into exile. We had to cross high passes and cope with blizzards. By the time we reached the border, we were exhausted and sick with fever and dysentery. I was too ill even to ride a horse. I was put on the broad back of a hybrid...
...Alzheimer's, is poignant and surreal. "He will rake leaves from the pool for hours, not understanding that they are being surreptitiously replenished by his Secret Service men." When Reagan acknowledged his ailment in 1994, many who had been struck by his odd driftiness during the White House years began to wonder whether it had been the disease beginning its assault on his brain. Morris is adamant in opposing that view. "To those readers who will seize on this as evidence of incipient dementia in the White House, I reply: You do not understand that actors remember forward, not backward...