Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perils on the path to San Francisco, Walter Mondale has clearly earned a rest. Quipped he: "I think I'm going to sit down and read my old speeches because I want to get a nap as quickly as possible." Symbolically, the self-declared champion of America's underprivileged chose an odd place to vacation for a week: the sumptuous seaside estate of New York Investment Banker Herbert Allen in Long Island's exclusive Southampton. But in another sense, the choice was apt. One of Mondale's main remaining tasks before the convention will be fund raising. His campaign spent...
...doesn't make too much sense unless it's heard up in the mountains where it has to echo across large distances." He chose the particular monastary because he had heard about and was interested in meeting and talking to the Lama there. Though the Lama speaks no English, the two attempted to communicate philosophical concepts about music--"concepts that are vague enough in any language...
...more people in Lionel struggled with more aspects of their Harvard experience" than otherwise seems to be the norm. It is not just the sheer number of Lionel people who decided to take time off to try and find themselves--eight of the original 18--but also where they chose to look. There wasn't one "typical" Harvard time off job, not one Capital Hill job or journalism internship. Two, Mary and Fernando, went off separately to work in the Catholic workers movement, dishing out food in soup kitchens and doing other volunteer work. Two took jobs at schools, Kathy...
After Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky dramatically revamped undergraduate education with the unveiling of the Core Curriculum, he decided that the quality of instruction was also due for a review; the man he chose to lead the effort was Professor of Government Sidney Verba...
...Parry chose the western Balkans for study because he saw a clear analogy between the oral literature of that region and the epics of Homer, which were passed down through word of mouth...