Word: postmen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Professors must have felt like weary postmen as they marched towards Memorial Church Friday. But intermittent rain couldn’t dampen spirits Friday as the University officially installed Drew G. Faust as its 28th president. Official Harvard Alumni Association ponchos were donned, umbrellas sprouted like mushrooms in Tercentenary Theatre, and the ceremony was marred only by a wet microphone that shorted out during remarks by University Marshall Jackie A. O’Neill...
...give the Crimson (3-3) an 83-81 lead they would not lose. “It wasn’t designed. but because all the other guys made plays down the stretch, there was an open lane for me because [the Wildcats] were on our shooters and our postmen, so that opened up a gap for me,” Lin said. “And then I just tried to attack it and see what would happen.” Harvard thought it had won when UNH forward Mike Christensen missed an open three as time was running...
...inside the Maoist heartland. Since November, the Maoists have instituted a systematic "purification" campaign: to reduce their territory to chaos and rubble and eliminate all opposition. As well as crippling and killing government supporters, they have turned their terror on anyone who might represent stability or an alternative authority. Postmen, health workers, moneylenders, landowners, teachers, all have become targets for public floggings or executions. The guerrillas have executed about 200 people in the past six months and tortured thousands more. Bands of rebels are also descending on villages and dragooning a child from each family into joining their ranks...
...more volunteers. And Bush wants $10 million for teaching support programs, $50 million to expand Senior Corps (foster grandparents and companions) and $40 million over five years to double the Peace Corps (especially in Islamic countries). The Citizen Corps will tap the naturally nosy--doormen, truckers, postmen--to report anything that looks suspicious to a new terrorist hot line. Unfurling Freedom Corps allows the President to bring the war home, to dress the entire country in green fatigues to "fight evil with acts of goodness...