Word: greats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THESE leaders-in-exile are young (Liu Yan is 19), and the shock of what they have gone through has been exacerbated by their sudden departure from their homeland and subsequent adjustment to life in the United States. A great burden has been put on these people's shoulders: in addition to dealing with their own ghosts, they are being asked to speak for those who died. They are not permitted to grow beyond June 4, and yet they are looked to for dynamic, continuing leadership...
...great opportunity to see where we're standing," said Holleran, who is playing number-one for the Crimson for the second straight year...
...employer, D.N.A-People's Legal Services, a legal aid organization on the Navajo Indian Reservation, sent me to recruit and interview law students at Harvard and a number of other law schools in the Boston area. D.N.A. has recruited on campus at the Law School for many years and a great number of attorneys who have worked on this program over the years, including myself, graduated from Harvard Law School...
...great asset not only to law students who wanted to use their degrees to work in the public interest, but to large numbers of underrepresented people and public causes around the country. Over my three years at the Law School I attended many seminars organized by the public interest placement department. I probably never would have heard of D.N.A. if it were not for Ron; I certainly would not have managed to find the funding for the project I wanted to pursue here if Ron had not been at Harvard...
...year-old Teresa Smith's liver and transplanted most of it into her daughter. The revolutionary technique -- transplanting a liver from a living donor -- had been performed in Brazil, Australia and Japan, but this was the first time it was tried in the U.S. Doctors have had a great deal of success in kidney, pancreas and bone-marrow transplants from living donors, and hope is rising that the liver will join that list. Says Dr. Christoph Broelsch, who led the Chicago transplant team: "This surgery potentially opens up a whole new pool of donor organs for infants...