Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team felt very comfortable on the notorious hills of Van Cortlandt Park...
That is especially important, because Van Cortlandt Park will be the site of Heptagonals...
...Berlin 12,000 angry youths threw eggs and tomatoes at a French cultural center. In Chile 10,000 protesters formed a human chain in a Santiago park. Thousands took to the streets in Sydney and Tokyo, while demonstrators in Manila burned a French flag. Japan's Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura called the French action "crazy." Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating branded it "an act of stupidity." Chile and New Zealand recalled their ambassadors. The tiny Pacific island nations of Tuvalu, Nauru and Kiribati broke off relations with Paris. Washington showed more restraint, expressing "regrets," while Bonn and London refrained from...
...neighborhood store where I worked part time, I had not yet excelled at anything. I was the "good kid," the "good worker," nothing more. I did well enough at Morris to win a letter for track, but after a while I found slogging cross-country through Van Cortlandt Park boring, and so I quit. I switched to the 440-yd. dash, because I could get it over with faster, but I dropped out after one season. We had a basketball team at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church. I was tall, fairly fast and the senior warden...
...classmates at the school been kinder and more welcoming, she probably could have made it. Even though she quit, I still think she is one of the bravest women in the U.S.--certainly braver than most of the men in the Citadel. MATT CALCARA Overland Park, Kansas AOL: Cal Clan