Word: benjamin
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Part of the reason Penn has been able to attract better football players is a result of the newfound national prestige for the school that was founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin...
...then, a shadow of anxiety is seen to cross the broad, luminous face of American democracy. Was the Revolution a social mistake after all? Should Benjamin Franklin have gone to the French court in a wig instead of his own egalitarian hair? Was it really such a good idea to get rid of George III and Lord North? Given the uninflected worship of money that marks the 1980s, it is no wonder that the spectacle of privilege enjoying its own toilette has become America's hottest cultural ticket. Thus Lord Marchmain of Brideshead becomes the Blake Carrington of the American...
...first step in the process is the purchasing of the food. "We are buying $5 million worth of food for the entire college every year," explains Benjamin Walcott, Assistant Director of Food Services. "To carry out this task we have two full time buyers...
Cabot has formed a special student-tutor committee to oversee the move. The committee meets for the first time tomorrow and probably will be holding interim lotteries for students moving in during the spring, said Benjamin R. Reder '86 who is on the committee...
...government had been warned that hanging Benjamin Moloise, 30, a black upholsterer and poet, would lead to bloodshed. The U.S. had asked State President P.W. Botha to "take another look" at the planned execution. The Soviet Union, the European Community, the 49-nation Commonwealth of Britain and the U.N. Security Council, among others, had also asked that Moloise's life be spared. But Botha refused all appeals for clemency, and last week, shortly after dawn, Moloise went to the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison. In Washington, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes told reporters: "We hoped that this action would...