Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophomore, Dukakis won a more important race, becoming a town-meeting representative. He ran with the help of a bright group of young Brookliners, many of them Jewish, who were consciously taking control of the town meeting on their way to bigger battles. Forming an organization called the C.O.D. (Commonwealth Organization of Democrats), they were not crusaders devoted to a single ideology. Reform for them meant putting better people into government, enforcing laws, ending graft...
...allowed to work towards a degree, but apart from that, the only requirement is that the recipient write a paper decribing his experience at the end of the year. "Not bad for $8000," says Hurst. Next year, because his fellowship requires that he "put his feet on Commonwealth soil," he plans to go back to study towards a Ph.D. at Oxford...
...Harvard men's "B" team finished with a 4-4 record on its spring trip south. Harvard scored victories over NAIA Division members Wake Forest (9-0), High Point (8-1), Guilford (6-3) and Virginia Commonwealth (5-4). However, the netmen lost to Davidson (7-2), University of North Carolina at Charlotte (6-3), Elon (7-2) and Atlantic Christian (8-1). Ajemian won seven of his eight matches...
Other NIT games include Virginia Commonwealth (23-11) at UConn (17-14), Ohio State (18-12) traveling to New Mexico (22-13) while Arkansas State (21-13) visits Colorado State (20-12). The finals will be held at Madison Square Garden, March...
Mark Baker, of the 350-bed Pine Street Inn shelter, called the Thursday article "pretty confusing to a lot of people. It was not clear, there were not too many facts, and it was not altogether accurate." Pine Street runs Boston's largest temporary shelter, at Boston University's Commonwealth Armory building...