Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week's impressive Capital Campaign announcement--which reported that Harvard had raised $2.325 billion over the past five years--is favorable news. But the job isn't over...
...separate incidents, part of a series of dorm break-ins over the past week, have led first-year students to call for increased security measures in the Yard...
Currently on top of the Ivy League standings after its clutch victories this past weekend, the Crimson hopes to get an even stronger grip on its lead with two crucial conference games on Friday and Saturday...
...events that happened fourscore-plus years ago provide a useful way of marking time. The summoning of such events, as if at a seance, makes an audience sit up, take notice, realize just how much water has passed beneath the bridge. Also: A grander grandeur accrues to the long-past achievement as we reflect on how many human generations have come and gone in the interim ? not only how frail is the flesh, but how rare was the deed. Such a bygone event, hearkened, creates nostalgia and longing. That must have been wonderful, to be in audience as those fathers...
...himself in fine post-season shape for this series against the Yanks. My friend John's father, who lives in Providence, is pretty sick, and has us all praying the Sox do it this year. Another John, in Andover, Mass., lost both his parents in the past few years, so it didn't happen in their lifetimes. But his wife Anne's mother, in Winchester, is going crazy over Pedro, and John and Anne have a son and daughter old enough to appreciate ? and share ? their parents' excitement. Barry's father, an artist up in Boothbay, Maine, is a fair...