Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to know where to begin because a win like this one has been unseen in these parts of Cambridge for a long, long time. Harvard hasn't even won consecutive games in the same season since 1991. (To top it off, the Tigers were last shutout at home by an Ivy League school in 1973...say it again...
Even before they heard Dole's feisty rhetoric, officials at the D.N.C. were spooked enough to go into damage control. On Friday they asked the Federal Election Commission to begin investigating the matter. Then they suspended John Huang, the maverick D.N.C. vice chairman who had not just drummed up Lee's contribution but made a Washington career out of raising small fortunes, $4 million to $5 million this year alone, from his network of Asian contacts. Two years ago, he made a smart landing at the Commerce Department, where, as a trade official, he cultivated a group of Asian businessmen...
...beginning, there was the Book of Genesis. And it was good. Only much later did different people begin to think of it in different ways. Steve Fintel, for instance. It is 8:30 on a sleepy Sunday morning in Metairie, Louisiana, and Fintel, a 49-year-old Eucharistic minister at St. Benilde Catholic Church, is playing Bette Midler's 1989 hit Wind Beneath My Wings to his Sunday school class--three 11-year-old boys and one girl. "Did I ever tell you you're my hero?" Midler sings. Fintel directs his four charges to chapter 12 of Genesis, where...
...Johnnie Cochran Jr., Simpson's lead attorney, who has a new book out too. His is a vain autobiography called Journey to Justice. Toobin and Cochran are both attacking Schiller, and, for good measure, each other. Opening arguments for Simpson's next trial, the civil one, are set to begin this week, but make no mistake, the first show is still running...
Harvard Stadium was the gift of the Class of 1879, which raised $100,000 for its 25th reunion gift. The gift, combined with the $75,000 from the College's athletic receipts, was enough to begin construction on a new arena...