Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students have never expressed anyunwillingness on Harvard's part to award financialaid," says Dean Strassburger, college counselor atLincoln Park High School in Chicago...
...April 10, the Boston Red Sox will open their 86th season at Fenway Park, which, along with Detroit's Tiger Stadium, is the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball. In 1999, Fenway will host its third All-Star Game, its first since 1961. But if Red Sox ownership has its way, by 2010 the Red Sox will be playing in a brand new stadium, probably in South Boston, while venerable Fenway will go the way of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds...
Fenway's first and probably strongest line of defense against this proposal is, of course, nostalgia and sentimentalism. Fenway Park is the mecca of baseball, one of the sport's most sacred shrines. As the misty-eyed Bob Costases of the world constantly remind us, Fenway and its charming idiosyncracies inspire the current generation of throwback stadiums, and the park is the standard against which all others are judged...
...Fenway Park presents a rare treasure for the city of Boston. It is a ballpark well integrated into its environs, an historical and architectural landmark and a classic fixture of the American cityscape. Should the Red Sox go through with their threats and move to a new site, Boston would lose not just a beautiful ballpark. It would lose a part of itself...
About three weeks ago, I spent a weekend at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel for the annual Harvard Model United Nations conference. On Saturday night, I was very tired and decided to head back to my room at Harvard. I got into a nondescript cab in front of the hotel. The cab driver charged me 50 cents for putting my bags in the trunk...