Word: harnessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...department. Most laurel-seekers, though, follow the well-worn, traditional path of the written essay. In what is supposed to be a well-written, well-argued essay of anywhere from 50 to 150 pages, theses writers try to sum up their four-year sojourn inside ivy-covered Har- vard through an in depth exploration of sometopic of their choice...
UEBERROTH'S '84 OLYMPICS did so much to advance the cause of shrill American jingoism that Harvard tries to do them one better. Class Day is moved to the Stadium, and the graduating seniors--resplendent in their Wyoming Wear--parade in as 80,000 gin-crazed alumni chant, "HAR-VARD! HAR-VARD!" and menacingly wave 15-ft. Crimson flags...
...first time in my life I'll get full disclosure," he said in a telephone interview. "They've conspired with a known har to discredit me, and they have facts -- the facts that prove the lady wasn't raped...
Hollis said the small number of Blacks in Har-also stressed the organization's importance as a concerted political steps to insure that they will be represented in the University. "When you have such a ridiculous minority without access to the corridors of power and not involved with hiring and firing, you are constrained in your choice of tactics. If there were Black people in power, these issues would not have to be resolved in the public domain...
...voters in supporting Jackson to "some dark and secret reason." The reason is not so dark, nor is it a great secret. Jackson could have indeed raised the level of this-presidential campaign by involving an ethnic group of traditional liberals who have supported Black rights in the past. Har-old Washington might not have won in Chicago if not for the Jewish support he received (running against a Jewish candidate). Yet, Jackson chose instead to lower the level by making racial slurs and then attempting to cover them up, and by refusing to turn his back on the likes...