Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Free spirit" is the label often applied to young Hall. It is an image he cultivates, showing up at meets in leather motorcycle pants and cruising around in a customized 1962 purple microbus. When the Dead's Jerry Garcia died, Hall swam his next meet with a black band traced on his arm in felt-tip pen. His devil-may-care attitude, however, masks a troubled past. As an adolescent, Hall was an indifferent student who clashed with his parents and took refuge at friends' homes. But Hall idolized his maternal grandfather, Charles Keating Jr., a one-time NCAA swimming...
...world changed on Aug. 9, 1995, and not just because Jerry Garcia died. That was also the day the initial public stock offering for Netscape Communications, a company that had yet to turn a profit, instantly garnered an astonishing $2 billion on the strength of one idea. The idea was the World Wide Web, and its gatekeeper, for the foreseeable future, is Jim Clark...
...Juan E. Garcia '99 wrote this spring that JFK, by promoting "hope and optimism, courage and sacrifice," gave the world "more than just a glimpse of his potential, [his words] evoked the potential of those listening." And Brandon Hofmeister '99, asserted in a moving personal essay that JFK's words still have the power to pull people toward him. "When I consider John F. Kennedy," Hofmeister wrote, "I am able to see the man, but I believe the myth.... My feelings are more powerful and more important than my dispassionate analysis of his accomplishments. This is not ignorance...
...Garcia said many members of the House Committee would rather have entered mediation talks through the University in order to settle the dispute...
...arguments against fighting it out in mediation was that the publicity would make the House look bad," Garcia said...