Word: iron
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Harvard needed this celebration. We needed the opportunity to create a concrete (or, in this case, brick, stone and iron) memorial to the trailblazers of the Class of 1976, a memorial which also anticipates a renewed effort on the part of the College to strengthen the role of women. The gate dedicated Saturday now boasts two plaques, one recognizing the anniversary 25 years ago, when women first moved into the Yard, and the other quoting the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Dudley Bradstreet: "I came into this country, where I found a new world and new manners at which my heart...
...February the killing begins as Islamists, believing they were cheated out of power, attack soldiers and police. Clashes spread when the military responds with an iron fist...
Several of our players did share a trait with a Hall of Famer who once lived in our neighborhood: Lou Gehrig. It wasn't Larrupin' Lou's power, unfortunately, nor the longevity of the Iron Horse. Rather, it was the sensitivity of the young Gehrig, who would sit on the Yankee bench and cry if he didn't drive in an expected run. We led the league in tears if nothing else...
...What began as a personal challenge quickly became a personal responsibility," recalls Morton, a West Virginia native who worked the Great Lakes iron-ore and coal boats and served in the Navy before studying biology and psychology at Connecticut's Trinity College and getting his M.D. at Harvard. "I knew from the start I could treat these disorders, and I soon felt a great responsibility to these children without knowing how I could possibly care for them...
...driving force behind this effort was an unassuming but iron-willed American woman from Moscow, Idaho, Dr. Jill Seaman, whose previous experience had been providing public-health services to Yup'ik Eskimos in the Alaskan wilderness. In an eight-year struggle against the disease, Seaman developed a wealth of clinical expertise in treating thousands of kala-azar patients, perhaps more than any other single doctor in history...