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Word: duked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interfere in campus politics" and will bring speakers to Harvard "who will not represent the views or opinions of HRAC." It would seem that HRAC has no views, and will only "provide its help and manpower to all Republican nominees." Presumably, everyone from Alphonse D'Amato to David Duke, could apply for support. Incidentally, HRAC members use that "foot soldiers of victory" thing again in Section 4. Forgive me, but I think LePen's youth brigades of budding French fascists use the same slogan...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pandemonium on the Right | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah left Duke for Harvard in 1991. Since his arrival, he and Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. have taken great strides in rebuilding their department...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: A 'Comfortable Place' For Eight Scholars | 2/26/1993 | See Source »

...squash equivalent of a free-for-all. Put every women's team in the country in one facility and let them duke it out for top honors...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Men's and Women's Squash Win Again | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

...Harvard and Tufts singers will be joined in New York by the winners of a West Coast competition. The University at California Men's A Capella Octet will be the third men's competitor, and the Duke Blue Notes will be the third female competitor, Fleming said...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Singers Win Trip | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

...nice middle-aged, middle-class Jewish ladies trying to live out their leftover lives. When Esther crosses class lines to embark tentatively on a relationship with Ben (Danny Aiello), who drives a cab, her pals send up a chorus of envy and disapproval. The acting is sharp, and Bill Duke's direction is realistically grounded. But writer Ivan Menchell Neil Simonizes loss. He can be funny in variously glib and cozy ways. What's beyond him is the kind of laughter, gallant and sardonic, that can brace and inspire us in adversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Feb. 15, 1993 | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

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