Word: popular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Century, a journalistic account of the world since 1900, is a popular coffee-table history...
...While Hyman counts Rawlins as the "number one benefit of being president," the two also worked closely together during their terms to revitalize the workings of the student government and, student life at Harvard. Hyman served three terms as president; in 1995 he was the first president elected by popular election of the entire undergraduate student body. Before then, the election of president was, as Hyman puts it, "an incestuous smoke-filled process" where the council members elected one of their own as chair of the council. Hyman recalls, "I was roundly condemned by the conservatives who preferred the former...
...Ryan has become a pillar of Boston electronic music and club culture. He's a long-spinning resident at Axis, one of the most popular clubs in Boston, and his Friday night set, Spin Cycle, is broadcast weekly live on WFNX and on-line. Word of his prowess with vinyl has also extended well beyond Boston, and his track "Supa Crush" features on the recently released CD "Torchbearers: A Compilation of 11 Club Culture Vanguards...
...India. In India, Churchill established himself as a national war hero and as an emergent man of letters. He felt the "desire for learning" at age twenty-two, and he gave himself a better education than his peers received from Oxford and Cambridge schoolmasters. He then began to write popular but anonymous war columns for London newspapers. Once he went to the front with the Malakand Field Force, he supplied Londoners with riveting accounts of the battle at the Malakand pass. He continued to entrance Londoners not only with columns about British campaigns in the Mamund valley and the Tirah...
...work in the existing system because I felt that such an effort would be too difficult to sustain from year to year, and that much of the the council's lobbying efforts made the same progress. The council's professionalism and responsibility has increased since the introduction of popular elections for the council president four years ago. In these four years, the council's role in College decisions has increased. I feel that this incremental approach--which has seen policy changes in phone rates, dining services, house life, UHS, security and safety, advising, book prices and student group funding...