Word: crossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCurdy arrived at Harvard in 1950, fresh from Springfield College, where he coached freshman track and cross country as a graduate student...
After serving as an assistant coach at Harvard for two years, he became the head coach of men's cross country and indoor and outdoor track...
...taking long walks in 100-acre Lithia Park, which extends along a creek several miles out from the center of the town. The mountains on two sides of the city and the Cascade Range, 20 miles to the east, are excellent for biking, hiking and skiing--both downhill and cross-country--and several golf courses are within 20 miles of town. Besides the Shakespeare Festival, there are other theater groups plus community art and music programs and a city symphony with a waiting list for subscribers. Fifteen miles north, the gold-rush town of Jacksonville has scores of antique shops...
...cross set aflame by men in white sheets is surely terrifying. But here's something possibly scarier: an Internet-connected, media-savvy gang of racists who cloak their members in suits and their rhetoric in mainstream politics. In 1999 which really sounds worse--a white supremacist with a club or one wielding a law degree...
...question isn't academic. In the 1990s hate has grown up and logged on. The Ku Klux Klan doesn't use the term cross burnings anymore; it prefers "sacred cross lightings." Klansmen have waged more legal war than race war in the past few years, trying (mostly in vain) to persuade local judges to let them Adopt-a-Highway. "If somebody comes up with a bottle of Jack Daniel's in one hand and a shotgun in the other and says, 'Let's go kill 'em all,' I say, 'You're not for our group,'" says Jeff Coleman, grand wizard...