Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America, however, had the American Revolution. And ever since that less-than-earth-shattering rebellion--shot heard round the world, or no shot heard round the world--left-wing historians in America have spent their time trying to create a legacy worth fighting for. Charles Beard attempted to play up the American revolution as a popular struggle in his Economic Interpretation of the Constitution--which purported to find a self-interested wealthy class responsible for fashioning the Constitution, thus betraying the spirit...
...loss dropped Harvard (7-10 overall, 3-3 Ivy) into fifth place in the Ivy League and left the Quakers (8-8, 4-0) holding onto the top spot...
Frazier made a driving layup to put the Quakers up by one point with six minutes remaining. Mike Gielen's leaning jumper with four-and-one-half minutes left in the game put Harvard back in front, but 60 seconds later Frazier made a fast-break layup off a Tyrone Gilliams assist to put the Quakers ahead for good...
Enter Chambers, a walk-on from the football team, who thrilled the crowd with his exciting hustle and aggressive ball-handling. His biggest play came with 58 seconds left in the game, when he stripped the ball from Harvard's Ron Mitchell in the lane to preserve a two-point lead...
...stayed for 11 months--and in his mind, at least, he's never left. Kremer is founder and executive director of World Teach, a non-profit Harvard group that has sent 175 college-aged students to teach in rural Kenya and China since 1987. To hear the Winthrop House alumnus talk, making the four-year transition from undergraduate life at Harvard to teaching in Kenya to working in Cambridge supplying teachers has been a matter of course...