Word: mens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sellout to a chain, no fortunes made or lost, circulation steady at 3,200 in a county of 9,500 and a town of 2,200. The back issues form a tapestry of small events, a century of stories of children's birthdays, club meetings, 4-H calves, men and women going off to war and, always, the terrors and joys of the Great Prairie weather. Good people, good earth, both granted dignity and meaning on the pages of a tiny paper...
...staged its first press conference since last June's Tiananmen massacre. The 300 accredited Chinese and foreign journalists underwent a tight security check at the entrance to the Great Hall of the People. Inside the meeting room, those selected to ask questions were planted within easy view of the men on the dais. As the six members of the Politburo Standing Committee filed in, wearing Western business suits and fixed smiles, one stood out as the first among equals. "Good morning," Jiang Zemin said in English, waving gamely to his audience...
...SUGAR by Alec Wilkinson (Knopf; $18.95). Every winter roughly 10,000 West Indian men come to harvest sugarcane by hand in South Florida. The author, a staff writer for the New Yorker, decided to see how these migrants earn their pay and came back with a story more bitter than sweet...
California Dreamin': The Harvard men's water polo team will be catching some "rays" in California this weekend, when it plays in the Berkeley International in Berkeley, Calif...
Runner-up: "My pulse is down to about 1000 now."--Harvard men's soccer goalie Jamie Reilly after the sophomore netminder recorded his first collegiate shutout in the Crimson's 1-0 win over Penn last Sunday...