Word: existing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midnight on Monday, April 21, the Conservative Club erected a shanty in Harvard Yard to protest the existence of all such structures in the Yard and to make it clear that oppression does not only exist in South Africa, but is actually sponsored by such kind and decent regimes as the Soviet Union as well...
...Krantz scatters a lot of glitz: hot seawater bubble baths, iced buffalo-grass vodka, tarte Tatin, Pratesi sheets, Don Johnson, Le Cirque and the Bohemian Grove. But she never forgets the essentials: steamy dialogue, unexpurgated sex and the outside chance that some of her fictive creatures may actually exist. I'll Take Manhattan is not literature, but it is lively and, in its own way, moral. In any Krantz work, the good get loved, and that is what makes it romantic. The bad get punished, and that is what makes it fiction...
...perfect example of the attitude divestment protesters have tried to dramatize by building an Ivory Tower in Harvard Yard. Harvard is ostensibly dedicated to promoting free and open debate. Yet there are few opportunities for members of the University community to influence decision-making processes and those that exist are treated as mere formalities...
...BEGIN WITH, when I arrived here in 1983, it didn't even really exist. The majority of the Square had been replaced by a giant canyon of concrete and twisted metal, the likes of which had not been seen since the days of the London V-2 blitz. The real problem, however, was what surrounded the subway's gaping...
...main reason for his embrace of the Soviets is U.S. support for Israel. Gaddafi is obsessed with wiping Israel off the map, and he is convinced that only America stands in his way. "Gaddafi believes that without the U.S., Israel could not continue to exist," says one Western diplomat. "He believes that the U.S. is being very unfair to the Arabs and that it is his duty as standard-bearer of the Arab cause to continually challenge Washington." Like the Ayatullah Khomeini, he sees Washington as the focus of evil on the planet and regards the U.S., not Israel...