Word: maya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maya S. Turre '00, of Dunster House, complains that "at least half the time half the computers aren't working in either of the two labs...
...Maya Lin, sculptor, furniture designer and architect of Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial: "Pennsylvania Station in New York City, which I only know from photographs but which remains to me one of the great architectural losses of our time...
DIED. HARRY WEESE, 83, the Chicago architect who designed Washington's imposing and functional Metro subway system and championed one of the city's most controversial markers, Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial; in Manteno, Ill. His Chicago landmarks include the towering Time & Life Building and a restoration of the Field Museum...
...many other islands in the Lesser and Greater Antilles. But less than 30 years after Columbus' three ocean-crossing ships dropped anchor off the island of Hispaniola, the Taino would be destroyed by Spanish weaponry, forced labor and European diseases. Unlike their distant cousins, the Inca, Aztecs and Maya, the Taino left no pyramids or temples--no obvious signs that they had ever existed. Just about all that remains of their culture is the handful of Taino words that survive in modern English, including barbecue, canoe, hammock, hurricane and tobacco...
Michael T. Tan '01 was elected secretary, Nicole Carbellano '02 was elected archivist, Christian Quilici '01 and Mikhaela B. Reid '02 were elected publicity chairs and Maya Bourdeau '01 was elected social chair...