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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second proposal, which calls for a 99,000-square-foot retail and office building on the present site of the Cherry, Webb & Touraine clothing store, was shelved because it did not allow for enough parking spaces...
...influx of students coming to Harvard under the GI Bill; veterans returning from years of fighting often chose not to live in the other houses with younger, traditionally college-aged tenants. At that time, up to 600 undergraduates affiliated with the center, located in Dudley Hall at the present site of Holyoke Center...
Here, the question of academic freedom centers around the right of an intellectual to present the views of others, even though they may be controversial and even offensive. This is Thernstrom's line of defense: he was simply discussing other historians' ideas...
...they come to play or stay? Disappearing athletes, dozens of them, from Communist countries underscored the fact that for some participants the Games can present a wholly unathletic set of opportunities. First the Rumanians: three speed skaters and a coach slipped away the night after opening ceremonies, before any of them competed. A few days later two Chinese speed skaters and a coach flew home, again before racing. Injuries, explained Chinese officials. Then there was the emigration of Soviets en masse from Calgary: 55 left prematurely, some of them ski jumpers returned to sender because, a Soviet official said...
...with sordid information. Their chief evidence was incriminating photos taken last fall outside New Orleans at a down-at-the-heels motel called the Travel Inn. The pictures showed a prostitute welcoming a series of men; Swaggart was seen both entering and leaving her room. According to a person present at the ten-hour session in Springfield, Swaggart confessed that he had battled an obsession with pornography since his youth and had been a periodic backslider. He stated that on the night the photos were shot, the woman had taken her clothes off and fondled herself, but he insisted that...