Word: oneonta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looking to break out of a three-game losing streak, the Harvard men's soccer team traveled to Oneonta, NY on Saturday afternoon to face the Hartwick Hawks...
...affair that helped make this run possible, after all, by boosting sympathy and softening her image). All week long she tried her best to stick to a script that called on her to listen and learn, seeming to absorb knowledge and wisdom from local experts and average folks in Oneonta, Cooperstown, Utica, Rome and Syracuse. The self-effacing, studious pose is supposed to buy time and get people accustomed to a startling sight: the first First Lady ever to run for office, doing so while her husband still occupies his. But this phase of her campaign, which will involve...
...telling local anecdote (such as the Ithaca car-crash victim denied insurance coverage after she failed to get preapproval for her emergency helicopter evacuation because she was unconscious at the time). But she was the Woman Who Knew Too Much. When a panelist at the education forum in Oneonta talked about an early-elementary remediation program called Reading Recovery, Hillary couldn't contain herself. "I know something about this program because I've followed it and I've supported it for, I guess, more than 10 or 12 years," she began, "ever since I learned about it being pioneered...
Such smugness lacks imagination. The polls have Mrs. Clinton (not yet formally announced but house hunting in Westchester County and running hard) just about even with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. She heads into upstate New York this week on a five-city swing (Oneonta, Utica, Syracuse, Albany, Cooperstown). But forget early polls. Over time, all great stories are subject to transformation, surprise, sudden unexpected bloom...
...band got its start at Oneonta State College in upstate New York. Perrino and Sears knew of Gilbert because he made sandwiches at the Student Union, and when the three moved to Boston in 1997, The Sheila Divine was born. ("Sheila" is slang for "boy who is not tough" in Australia.) They were signed by Cherry Disc Records after sneaking into the president's office and putting their two-song demo tape in his deck. Perrino recently quit his job as an office-boy at a real estate agency, and the band's first full-length album, New Parade, will...