Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each year, Harvard hopes that with the stroke of a pen, graduating seniors will keep their alma mater close to their hearts and their checkbooks by making donations to the senior gift...
...tension escalated over the past week, I witnessed the events first from the ladders in the press pen, then as part of the sweating, shouting masses--a supposedly objective reporter thrown all-too-easily from my precarious perch into the swirling currents of emotion below...
...scarf will no doubt bring Chirac even greater political gain. He shouldn't, therefore, be too worried that crowds are already calling for Zinedine "Zizou" Zidane, the striker who scored two of France's goals, to be elected president. That will be far more troubling to Jean-Marie Le Pen: The fact that a whole nation is cheering for the son of Algerian immigrants, not to mention the rest of a team that Le Pen described as "unrepresentative of France," could be a body blow to his Front National...
PARIS: You'd think France's World Cup soccer exploits would whip the country's right-wing nationalist politicians into a patriotic frenzy -- instead, it leaves Jean-Marie Le Pen and his ilk in an awkward position. Their problem: France's soccer heroes are mostly of African descent, and the anti-immigrant Le Pen doesn't consider them "real" Frenchmen. "In the past, Le Pen has complained about the predominance of black and Arab players and said it couldn't really be considered a French team," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "But they're smart enough to know...
...soccer team has done more to promote racial tolerance in France, and pride and a sense of belonging among its immigrant population, than anything the government could ever have done," says Sancton. So whether or not they beat Brazil in Sunday's final, they've already trounced Le Pen...