Word: birthday
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...result is an amplification of the process at the expense of the issues. Despite his pretensions at substance, Cohen falls prey to this trap, and while this may thrill those who find the electoral process more thrilling than their 21st birthday, the book is unbearable for the less politically inclined—or at least those more interested in the substance than the process...
...Foege said. “Could we have imagined that we would have vaccines for so many diseases, including two now for cancer?” The school’s selections of Fauci and Foege were intended to help commemorate Richmond’s recently passed 90th birthday by honoring doctors as committed to children’s health as Richmond is. “These two guys have done an unbelievable amount for kids in the world,” said Bloom...
...contrast to this weekend’s calmness, for its 350th anniversary, Harvard spent over $1 million to throw itself a four-day birthday party—including a Grand Ball—that attracted over 40,000 people to Cambridge and was eight years in the making, the Crimson reported...
...Harvard’s 350th anniversary, Jack Rosenthal ’56, former editorial page editor of The New York Times, ran a 1986 Times editorial notebook column, describing the birthday as a celebration not of elitism but of “the impulse to share...
...tradition of celebrating Harvard’s birthday has come into play at a much later date in the school’s history. Harvard began its second century of existence in 1736 without festive parades or commemorative speeches, according to the 1997 report...