Word: massing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Remember what eight years of Republican rule has wrought: missing weapons of mass destruction, the promises we'd be greeted as liberators, Jessica Lynch, torture, the disintegration of Afghanistan. Also: Enron, WorldCom, Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie and Freddie, GM, Chrysler, Social Security privatization, the $700 billion bailout. Also: Brownie, John Ashcroft covering up that bare-breasted statue at the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales politicizing the Justice Department, Harriet Miers, the oil lobbyist who edited those global warming reports. Also: Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. Also: the Vice President shot a guy, and the President almost...
...because we’ve kind of been floundering for most of the season.”The Crimson now looks ahead to ACC Championships, which will be held at Hobart & William Smith in Geneva, N.Y. NICKERSON TROPHYThe Crimson sent four of its freshmen to the Nickerson Trophy at Mass Maritime, an event that serves as the New England Freshman Championships. Harvard’s rookies amassed 192 points, earning them a ninth-place finish in the 15-team field. Skipper Jerry Tullo and crew Alexandra Jumper placed 10th in the A division, while skipper Annie DeAngelo, the only female...
...national ad campaign in 1959 called "Behind the Freedom Curtain." "You will register and count your own vote!" The ad proclaimed."Mechanical counters cannot get tired, cannot get cranky, cannot forget!" Evidently, the lever technology needed such aggressive commercials - fifteen states that had adopted the device since its mass production in 1892 had returned them by 1929, calling them too complicated, too expensive and too difficult to keep in working order. In the early 1960s, University of California at Berkley professor Joseph Harris suggested applying to ballots the punch-card method used by early computers - setting the stage...
...It’s nice,” she said, adding that she wants to be a lawyer or a doctor when she grows up. But the students’ trip up to Boston was not just confined to the gates of Harvard Yard. They also traveled to Salem, Mass. to celebrate Halloween and, on Saturday, the group walked the Freedom Trail, attended a college information session run by Harvard’s Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Programs, and went candle pin bowling. On Sunday, the students concluded their trip with a visit to Lexington and Concord before heading back home...
...only the adults who had fun—the younger visitors enjoyed the opportunity to showcase their knowledge about Dia de los Muertos. “In Spanish class they [my children] learned about it,” said Natalie S. Fitzgerald, a resident of Milton, Mass., located just south of Boston. “My son knew about it when we came in.” Fitzgerald added that she thought that the museum’s activities helped to draw a younger crowd—and their parents—to the building. “They really...