Word: guests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ministry of the Electronics Industry before becoming mayor of Shanghai in 1985 and party chief in 1989. Last May he attended V-E day ceremonies with 50 other world leaders in Moscow and in July enjoyed a state visit to Germany. On such occasions he is an enthusiastic guest, smiling, shaking hands, chatting in one of his three foreign languages (Russian, Romanian and English), reciting T'ang-dynasty poetry and even quoting lines from the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
...Gathered at one table were takeover maestro Henry Kravis, billionaire Laurence Tisch, New Yorker editor Tina Brown and her husband Harry Evans, the head of Random House, along with some luminous stars of TV journalism--Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters. It was a pretty predictable guest list for this crowd. But there was someone sitting at the same table who does not make a regular haunt of Fifth Avenue apartments. Uncharacteristically dressed in a suit, his beard a thinning shadow of its former self, Fidel Castro, 69, nibbled on gold-embossed cookies, told jokes and held...
...when she was 35 years old. She followed the Simpson proceedings religiously as a diversion from her own death sentence. After learning of Lynne's case, Judge Ito offered her seats in the courtroom. On July 25, she accepted and spent the afternoon session in court as his guest. Upon her arrival, Judge Ito invited her into his chambers, and during the afternoon break, he sent his law clerk to ask if Lynne would like to come back to his chambers and rest. In the weeks that followed her visit, Judge Ito continued to call to check on her condition...
...only thing that worries me about grade inflation is its differentiation," said Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, a guest...
Indeed, we have hosted Yasser Arafat in our communal "house," and, knowledgeable as we were of his bestial history, we should never have afforded him the distinction of a "welcome guest." When all is said and done, on Tuesday, October 24, Harvard "wined and dined" a murderer...