Word: birthdaying
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Unlike Martin Luther King's birthday, the Stuart Case didn't stop the mail; also unlike Monday's holiday, the Stuarts' travails were too big for even Harvard to ignore. who wants to read textbooks when the headlines in The Globe resemble a clan of giant cockroaches? Who wants to study for "Social Analysis 34. Knowledge of Language" when there's racial strife going on right now, right here in Boston...
Does Harvard sit at the center of the universe after all? Do the sun and the moon follow the registrar hither and thither? (And does Congress? Is that why Martin Luther King's birthday comes so neatly sandwiched right where it doesn't count...
...nonstop surveillance; friends who came to visit were sometimes turned away and harassed for the attempt. His homes and car were repeatedly and imaginatively vandalized, doubtless by ever present security forces; repair workers whom he hired were threatened with police reprisals. The country cottage where he celebrated his 40th birthday was officially ordered vacated, one day later, as unfit for human habitation. Havel was never physically tortured, although on at least one occasion a policeman threatened, "Today you're going to get so beat up that you'll have your trousers full...
...lived to your first birthday, but thousands of American children...
...have been a significantly good decade," says Malcolm Forbes, 70, the ebullient magazine publisher whose $2 million Moroccan birthday party for himself epitomized the decade's love of self-indulgence. "Critics point to the glitterful excesses and the greed, but, God, they miss the point," says Forbes. "This was the decade that saw the triumph of U.S.-led free enterprise. Rebuilding the economies of Eastern Europe now offers huge opportunities, and it will be done in the next decade...