Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Past honorees have included poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton, the first black woman to become board-certified in high-risk obstetrics--and McClelland's mother...
...Toward students, Nathans stressed the advice that police and University officials have issued over the past three months...
...memory of any stretch of years eventually resolves to a list of names, and one of the useful ways of recalling the past two millenniums is by listing the people who acquired great power. Muhammad, Catherine the Great, Marx, Gandhi, Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin and Mao come quickly to mind. There's no question that each of those figures changed the lives of millions and evoked responses from worship through hatred...
...before he finished that, she looked well past him--the rim of the skyline back of his shoulders--and there was an odd cloud forming itself in the shape of a dark bird rushing toward her. She met the angel's eyes again, gave an awkward nod and said, "I'm Miriam. Let me be God's slave...
...years Cuba's communist dictator, Fidel Castro, has chafed, rattled and raged under the cold-war headlock of a U.S. trade embargo. But this past summer the wily presidente sensed an opening. Philadelphia health-care-products giant SmithKline Beecham (a subsidiary of SmithKline Beecham in Britain) got the Clinton Administration's O.K. to pay Cuba some $20 million for the rights to test and market, in the U.S., a meningitis vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Embargo rules still require SmithKline to pay initially in barter instead of dollars--a Yanqui condition that aides expected Castro to reject. To their surprise...