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...This was just a great weekend for the team," Harvard Coach Jim Floerchinger said. "We played stifling defense all weekend long, and were basically able to command other teams...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 18 Women's Water Polo Finishes Third at Easterns | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...Club begins during the Civil War. In 1863, as Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Class of 1860, and the 54th all-Negro regiment was marching past the Somerset Club, the members pulled down their blinds and hissed in disapproval. Shocked and horrified, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Class of 1861, second-in-command of that regiment, reportedly led a group of his friends out the front door and formed the Union Club just down the street. Not until 1952 would a Hallowell finally agree to join the Somerset...

Author: By Samuel Hornblower, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Old Boys' Clubs | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

ACTION SPOKESCOUNCIL acted as a nightly command center for all participants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Chaos: How 603 Groups Of Demonstrators Acted As One | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...tuition and expenses for five of the school's seniors to attend college next year. He plans to continue the program, with recipients chosen each year according to talent and need. Unfortunately, his move sets an unreasonably high precedent for full-time principals, who will now be forced to command the respect of students by doling out cash instead of detention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 24, 2000 | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...head. The impact of the fall left my 62-year-old father in a three-week-long coma. One craniotomy, four blood transfusions and several minor operations later, he is slowly beginning to regain consciousness. On good days, he can whisper his name, squeeze his therapist's hand on command, and breathe for 12 continuous hours without the help of a machine. On bad days, he drifts in and out of sleep, overwhelmed by the seemingly contradictory doses of medication they pump into his stomach by the cupful. One tries to keep his heart rate active; another tries to keep...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sealed with a Kiss | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

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