Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rudely-awakened students were delegates to the 44th session of the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN), a 1,900-member conference held in Boston's Park Plaza Hotel, which was staffed by Harvard students...
...From the barrios in Los Angeles to a penthouseon Park Avenue," Shinagel says he believes that"one of the things people come to Harvard for isthat heterogenity...
Because of their brief reportorial careers, Lewis and her sister know many celebrities. Lewis, who has a place in a tony apartment building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue across from Central Park, was not above dropping her daughter's job to impress. When Kevin McDonough, the editor of her book The Private Lives of the Three Tenors, told Lewis he was leaving New York City to do some work in Washington, Lewis told him, "My daughter works at the White House. She can give you a tour...
...setting for An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence, the third and best of Jamie Harrison's laconic Montana mystery novels, is the small town of Blue Deer, just miles from Yellowstone National Park but far, far away from anything resembling mainstream, middle-class America. Though it's not a high-crime zone by any measure, Blue Deer is a vortex of dysfunction, its geographic isolation breeding a sense of year-round cabin fever. Fretful, jumpy and deeply divided between new-money urban refugees playing cowboy and no-money long-time residents living off resentment and odd jobs, Blue Deer is also...
...NAOC proposed a compromise to raise the start of the downhill course by 60 meters, as long as the new addition would be between the park and a chairlift that runs along the edge of the park. FIS had originally objected on the grounds that the skiing time for the current course--about one minute and 30 seconds--was too short to be a "true Olympic test". Additionally, FIS asked to use part of the restricted area on the grounds that recreational skiers were already using the part of the park that Kobayashi claimed previously to have rare plants that...