Word: haa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politician, Dole is a helluva campaigner. At her speaking engagements, she leaps out from behind the lectern and wades into the audience, Oprah-style. But the spontaneity is well rehearsed. Her campaign manner is Southern-fried Kabuki: every line, every smile, every knowing aside, every haa-haa-haa has been tested and practiced until the timing is just...
With some of its projects, including its Indonesian study, HIID has enjoyed the long-term support of the government and has helped to promote renewal in the nation. In other places, however, shifting politics, often exacerbated by short-term economic difficulties, haa meant that much of HIID's advice goes unheeded, Romer says...
Students are often the first to face the costs of Commencement. Before the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has sent out its Senior Week brochures, students have already had to ante up for caps and gowns. Once the HAA's brochure makes it into seniors' hands, the further costs of joining one's fellow students in jubilation become manifest: $4 for a senior film and slide show; $12 for a moonlight cruise; $15 for the "Last Chance" dance; $35 for the Class Day Clambake; $10 for the Radcliffe Alumni Association luncheon...
...recent Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) ad hoc committee proposal recommending a Civil War memorial [in Memorial Hall] including the names of Confederate soldiers disturbs us on both philosophical and practical counts. We believe the idea of memorializing Confederate soldiers represents a troubling historical amnesia...
...Harvard alumni will have the opportunity to vote on the overseers by mail this spring. The alums will receive their ballots on April 15 and must return them by May 31, according to HAA's Assistant Director for Alumni Relations Jane Cantor...