Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard lightweight crew lost out on its bid to win its first-ever national title June 11, finishing behind Princeton and Yale at the Empire State Regatta on the Hudson River in Albany, N.Y. The Crimson had swept the Tigers and Elis in the Goldwaithe Cup and the Eastern Sprints earlier this year but, hampered by the loss of seven-man Ted Marple to tendonitis, the Crimson finished 2.2 seconds behind Princeton...
...ostensible purpose at the summer school, I really didn't learn much from my coursework at all. I never made an effort to go to my professors' office hours or delve into the ideas beyond the normal coursework. Looking back, I lost out by not approaching my professors because Summer School faculty are usually very accessible...
...lost touch with my summer school friends now, and my course grades were so bad that I never bothered to fill out the form to get Real Harvard credit for them. But my summer at Harvard was still definitely worth...
...never existed, that all along he was an opportunist obsessed with power. Others shrug and wonder if he simply traded in his civil rights merit badges for the good life. Perhaps the passion for power simply overwhelmed his compassion for the powerless. Yet he bristles at talk of promises lost. "I reject all of that because the things I was fighting for when I came into Washington were justice, equality, fairness, for blacks to get into certain positions of responsibility, to make decisions about people's lives. What's the power here, except the power to help...
Overnight the savage massacre in Tiananmen Square shattered Hong Kong's wary faith in that future. Thousands donned funeral garb to mourn the dead of Beijing. The stock market plunged 22% in one day in a paroxysm of lost confidence. Chinese flocked to mainland banks to withdraw their money, as much in anger as in fear. And the largely apolitical people of this freewheeling monument to commercialism discovered a newfound political activism...