Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard athletic department yesterday announced that it has named Gordon Graham the new women's varsity tennis coach, ending its three-month search for a replacement for Ed Krass...
...Boys. Her old pals remember her as a lively girl, just the kind you'd like to take for a spin in your first fire engine. She did seem to figure things out fast and was aware of a wider world. "She taught me french kissing," says a classmate, Gordon Riegel, "not because she was fast, but because she read about it in some magazine like Vogue and was curious...
...Germany is not a fixed concept or entity," says Gordon Craig. "It's something that has changed through the years. The history of Germany has been a long, slow, disappointed voyage toward the light, toward popular freedom. It started with the Enlightenment and was defeated. It tried to revive and was defeated by the way Germany was united in 1871. Finally, thanks to the utter destruction of Germany in 1945, it got another chance, and is now being realized. We should be celebrating reunification with at least two cheers...
While most East Europeans welcome the torrent of Western investment, they often have mixed feelings about the changes that it brings. Some fear that the capitalist invasion may replace communism with a new and more subtle form of economic domination. Says Richard Gordon, a director of the Massachusetts- based Polish American Business Education Foundation: "There are still doubts in many people's minds about selling off parts of their national patrimony to foreigners...
...than a constitutional amendment, those who favored the first but now oppose the latter will have trouble arguing that their stand is one of pure principle. Other Democrats are joining the fight for an amendment, some out of sincere conviction, others out of electoral expediency. On the other side, Gordon Humphrey, a rock-ribbed conservative from New Hampshire who is not seeking re- election, is among the Republicans who oppose the amendment. "I find it trivializing," he says. "I just don't like tampering with the Bill of Rights...