Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deeply traumatized by China's bloody crackdown on students in Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong has been looking back to London for reassurance that the same thing won't happen there when Beijing assumes control of the crown colony in 1997. At the least, Hong Kong's 5.7 million Chinese want the option of moving to Britain. Last week British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe was dispatched to the colony to allay fears, but his visit only managed to make a bad situation worse...
...students what the biggest team on campus is and the response will be unanimous--the men's ice hockey team, which last April brought Harvard its first NCAA championship since the golf team nabbed the crown in 1905. Minus Hobey Baker winner Lane MacDonald, Olympian Allen Bourbeau, a few other graduates and the hunger for that elusive national title, one can't expect the same from this year's squad...
...advance sale of any nonmusical show in West End history. For once the actual event is no disappointment, although in director Peter Hall's shrewd reading the play is more comedy than tragedy and focuses more on Portia (played by Geraldine James of TV's The Jewel in the Crown) than on Shylock...
...steel Bank of China, Southeast Asia's tallest building and a prominent addition to Hong Kong's spectacular skyline, was to embody the faith that both Hong Kong and China placed in a common future, a visible symbol of the "one country, two systems" promised when the British crown colony reverts to China in 1997. Last week two enormous black-and-white banners drooped across the tower's facade bearing a grim message in Chinese characters: BLOOD MUST BE PAID WITH BLOOD...
February 22: The women's basketball team over-comes Cornell, 77-57, to share its first-ever Ivy crown...