Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While panelist Professor Cornel R. West '74 agreed that Harvard still has much progress to make in promoting integration and diversity on campus, he said in the 28 years that have elapsed since his undergraduate days at Harvard, the University has made huge strides in combatting racism and segregation...
...incredible because we just decided to run for fun, and it wasn't like a huge hype like Heps had been the week beforehand," said freshman Brenda Taylor. "None of us was nervous, and we just were going to go run. [Junior] Heather [Hanson] ran a lot faster opening lap--a second faster--than she ran the week before. It was amazing, we just came together as a team...
...what they said and did, men were still, as in the aftershock of a great wound, bemused and only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only the shout of a child in the street...
...about tragic accident than gothic design. "Gayl was not a puppet. She fell in love," says author and friend Nettie Jones (no relation). Since childhood, Gayl had seemed lost inside her own head. As a student, she sat in class swallowed under layers of clothes, just her face and huge eyes peeking out, speaking only when spoken to. But what she said was often brilliant. "Other students would turn to her and say, 'O.K., Gayl, what's the answer?' She always had the answer," remembers her 11th-grade English teacher, Sue Ann Allen. Gayl came to the attention...
...University economics professor and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In 1996 Boskin headed a Senate commission that concluded that the CPI overstates annual inflation by about a percentage point. That means the low CPI of 1.7% last year might really have been less than 1%--a huge difference. Boskin's startling assertion accelerated the drive to find a new CPI formula while politicians began drooling over the prospect of reallocating billions of dollars freed by reduced CPI-pegged spending...