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Robert W. Oliver ’53, Law’s roommate throughout college, recalls that Law’s adherence to the tenets of Catholicism—which were far stricter in the 1950s than by the end of the following decade??€”distinguished him from other undergraduates...
...experienced the frustration with the Chinese government that Yang had been dealing with for the past decade??€”and become a vocal, political activist in the legacy of her husband...
While Yale’s graduate students—who have unsuccessfully pushed for unionization for more than a decade??€”constitute a significant proportion of the picketers in New Haven, Harvard’s graduate teaching fellows aren’t nearly as advanced in their own efforts to organize...
...widely anticipated campus appearance—his first in a decade??€”former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev looked back yesterday on the era of perestroika that he had engineered...
...only keep his army in line by resorting to brutal purges. The senior officers now in command experienced the Gulf War and they know they are even weaker now. We can be confident that they are not terribly excited about getting themselves and their men slaughtered. A decade??€™s worth of testimony from Iraqi military defectors, including the army chief of staff at the time of the invasion of Kuwait, shows that officers more often are motivated by a dislike for intense physical pain than by heartfelt loyalty to their government...