Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conception of what a Harvard graduation involved. I could envision only receiving my long-awaited diploma in an atmosphere of jubilant feeling toward my school and fellow classmates. The spirit of the tradition becomes clouded when I consider the difficulty that many of my peers and their families face in funding a Harvard graduation. After all, graduating from this college should be a blessing, not a burden...
...many of Harvard's elitist final clubs. The Black groups go back to the time of collegiate segregation, which unfortuantely, is not so far back for Harvard. They were started at some of the nation's oldest universities, such as Fisk and Tuskeegee. These organizations survived in the face of great societal injustice and provided Black men and women with a place to belong...
...other NCAA first-round games today, number-12 seed Air Force (13-3) will face number-five Loyola (11-1) in Loyola, Md. Number-11 seed Cornell (6-5 and last year's NCAA Tournament runner-up) will square-off against the University of Massachusetts (10-2) in Amherst. And number-10 seed Virginia (7-4) will meet number-seven Yale (12-3) in New Haven, Conn...
...winner of the Harvard-Navy showdown will face Syracuse in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse...
...week's end strike leaders and shipyard managers in Gdansk entered into church-mediated negotiations. While pay raises and amnesty for strikers were discussed, the effort seemed designed primarily to save face on both sides. Whatever comes of the talks, Poland still faces grave challenges ahead. The government has demonstrated that it can contain major outbreaks of worker dissent, but only by means that are likely to provoke more trouble in the future. The workers have managed to deliver a message of defiance and rage, but they are not able to transform it into political gains. In the empty space...