Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale, he met Jane Cheney, a Bryn Mawr student to whom he proposed on their first date. Although Spock's mother had a low opinion of Bryn Mawr, Spock and Cheney were married in 1927. By that time, Spock was enrolled at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City, where he graduated first in his class in 1929 and set up a pediatric practice. His experiences during the 1930s were crucial to the development of his child-rearing theories. He realized that most of the problems brought to him were behavioral rather than medical...
...Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace threatened Wednesday to cancel a photo opportunity of Princes William, 15, and Harry, 13, on holiday with their father Prince Charles in British Columbia, after Canadian camera crews filmed the boys getting on a ski lift. The spokesman told 100 reporters and photographers that the princes were upset by the breach of privacy. If the episode is repeated, he said, the princes' planned appearance Thursday would be canceled...
...child prodigy, Ma never toed the expected line, cutting class regularly, pounding brews at music camp and leaving his cello in the rain, passing up the conservatory for a liberal-arts education at Columbia and then dropping out without telling his parents (he later graduated from Harvard). Now 42, Ma has long been possessed of an easygoing, boyish--at times even goofy--charm. "He's a doll," says Morris. "Everybody knows it, and it's a cliche, but it's true. I'd like to think there's something vicious about him, but I've never seen...
...game and then succumbed to a fatal struggle with leukemia. He then hands the narrative reins over to his living friend Richard Doorland, who introduces Coupland's latest array of anti-heroes: a tight circle of high school seniors of the late 1970's residing in leafy Vancouver, British Columbia, (which also happens to be Coupland's place of residence). The cast of characters is eerily reminiscent of a TV sitcom and conveniently created so as to pair-off nicely in the later chapters: meet, for example, pyromaniac slacker Hamilton and his Cover-Girl-to-be sweetheart Pam, "braniac" yearbook...
Bynum Jackson of 491 Huntington Ave. in Boston was arrested at Cambridge and Columbia Streets after taking down a lightpole and then running into a motor vehicle stopped at a red light...