Word: longing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immigration restrictions "reflected the founding father's view of America as a homogeneous society," Takaki said. Many Americans continue to assume that all Asians are recent citizens of the U.S., he said. "Students and faculty still ask you "How long have you been in the country?" he said...
...only the Ivy League football season was 13 weeks long. Because if the Crimson (4-2 Ivy League, 4-5 overall) had a few more games on its schedule, it could have made a serious run at the Ivy title. After dropping its first four out of five games, the Crimson has rebounded by winning its last three out of four. A victory in The Game would make Harvard's resurgence even sweeter...
After the garbage contract is renegotiated, recycling will offer a rare opportunity to marry social consciousness to financial self-interest. And if the prospect of financial gain and the satisfaction of being environmentally sensitive do not galvanize Harvard behind a long-term committment to recycling, then the University's role as educator should...
Such stridence--not to mention the spirited criticism that shaped discussion of the issue all last year--is undoubtedly a good thing. As long as minority and women faculty hiring is alive as a political issue, department chairs and faculty committees will have to consider the race and gender implications of their hiring decisions...
...Last year the DOE was forced to shut down its only source of tritium, the aging Savannah River nuclear weapons plant in South Carolina, when the reactors there developed cracks and other safety problems. The risk that the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal might soon run out of gas provoked long and acrimonious debates in Congress. In the midst of that controversy word came that the DOE had been making millions of dollars a year by selling surplus tritium overseas. Some of the gas, it was revealed, had vanished while being shipped to British lighting manufacturers...