Word: eventã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beat up going in, but he stuck in it and got a point.”When all was said and done, the men’s co-captain finished eighth in the decathlon with a score of 6477.Despite getting off to a slow start in the first event??finishing 19th in the 100-meter dash—the San Diego native quickly made up for it with a downright win in the second event. Bounding 6.89 meters in the long jump, Lewis out-leapt the second-place finisher from UConn by more than a meter.Lewis next logged...
Tibetans urged Han Chinese, members of the largest ethnic group in China, to recognize them culturally and politically at an event last night that aimed to foster discussion between the two groups in light of continuing violence in Tibet. More than 150 people attended the event??entitled “Working Towards a Better Future: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue between Tibetans and Han Chinese”—which featured two Tibetan and two Chinese panelists. Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund President Arthur N. Holcombe said that a resolution would only result from dialogue between the two groups...
...Zionist Noam Chomsky delivered a remarkably soft 45-minute chronology of Israeli-Palestinian history yesterday. Chomsky walked audience members through a careful timeline of Israeli actions against the Palestinians, issuing academic criticisms of the United States and various scholars for their attitudes on the subject. About half of the event??s attendees had filtered out by the middle of the question-and-answer session that followed Chomsky’s remarks. “I expected it to be more heated,” said moderator and HLS student Nimer Sultany after the event. Chomsky did take...
While American politicians are embroiled in debates over the degree of the U.S. economic crisis, Harvard economics professor Kenneth S. Rogoff told a lecture hall of undergraduates that the current financial crisis “looks like a really bad one.” The event??“The Current Economic Slowdown: Causes and Consequences”—was hosted by the Harvard economics department and intended to explore the recent downturn with “no Harvard politics, just real-world substance,” department chair and moderator James H. Stock wrote...
...frosh Weekend” approaches once again, many on campus say they fear that the event??s tendency to foster close cultural bonds might actually counteract its positive mission by promoting self-segregation in the face of Harvard’s drive to diversify...