Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Captain Lane MacDonald can tell you about the NCAA Final Four. Or the ECAC Championships. Or even the Olympics. But the Beanpot, well, MacDonald hasn't had much luck in that tournament...
Boone said the lottery for Jazz will favor juniors and seniors but will otherwise be random. Boone is taking a sabbatical next year. but students losing out in the lottery this time around can try their luck again two years from...
...international reputation and branched out to top assignments in the opera world. A year and a half ago, he won the powerful job of artistic director at the still uncompleted Opera de la Bastille. In September the grateful government awarded him the Legion of Honor. But now Barenboim's luck has turned. While President Francois Mitterrand kept silent, he was summarily fired -- and just as summarily vowed to sue. He denounced the "lies, half- truths, bad faith and especially the incompetence of those in charge...
Later there would be endless musing over "Reagan luck" and "Reagan magic." He was in fact often fortunate. Not only did John Hinckley's bullet stop an inch from Reagan's heart, for instance, but the shooting occurred at a time when the public was still forming its concept of the new President. Reagan's image was enhanced when he responded with both wit and grit. But the incantations about "magic" imply mystical powers beyond the ken of other politicians. There is nothing mysterious about a veteran public performer with a knack for timing, a keen sense for what will...
Last year, Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70 thought he was a lucky man to observe during his lifetime one of the brightest supernova explosions our region of the universe has seen in centuries. But this year, he thinks his luck may have doubled...