Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blake '98, James' brother, also played in the Rhode Island tournament, winning a qualifying match against former top player David Wheaton, the tournament's 1994 champion...
...treatment of the Ku Klux Klan was even more troubling. According to the museum, the actions of the Klan were morally equivalent to those of Union soldiers, who "were often guilty of theft and murder" against defenseless Southern whites, and Northern carpetbaggers, who "were exploiting the ignorance of the former slaves for their own selfish purposes." Worst of all? The abolitionists, who dared "to place blacks in positions of authority." This was Alice in Wonderland history, a version in which everything I had learned was turned on its ear and served up as fact. And yet the white-haired Vicksburg...
...worked there, but insisted that the man who owned them was an opponent of slavery who had always wanted to free his slaves but was blocked by his neighbors. The tour was based on the oral testimony of dozens of white parents, children, aunts and employees, but no former slaves...
When Lawrence H. Summers was confirmed as treasury secretary last week, he became the latest in a long line of Harvard professors--from former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 to former Council of Economic Advisers Chair Martin S. Feldstein '62--to assume high-profile government posts...
Summers began his political career shortly after his graduate studies. Beginning in 1982, he served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under Feldstein, his former dissertation supervisor, who was chair of the council at the time...