Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dunster House tragedy, which occurred at the end of a semester I spent recovering at home, mixed hope with horror; while my condition might have gone unnoticed, surely something of such an extreme magnitude could have led to real and positive change. In the years since, those hopes have proven to be largely unfounded. Harvard has done much to repair its image, but little to prevent a future tragedy...
Indeed Brown has proven to be the thorn in many an Eastern team's side, but Harvard has shown hints of taming the Bears. In both contests this year, for example, the Crimson has fallen by a mere margin of four goals...
...impact is lessened a bit since Harvard's other tailback, sophomore Chris Menick, has proven himself and rushed 15 times for 121 yards last week against Lehigh. He also scored two touchdowns, both on a rush and a reception...
Moreover, the market-in the form of charter schools-has already proven itself to be ill-suited to the needs of education. Charter schools, an innovation imported from England several years ago, encourages individuals with a plan for an experimental school to apply for funding directly from the state without prior approval from local officials. The New Republic has chronicled the disaster of the charter schools over the past year or so. We have read of an Afrocentric high school in Washington, D.C. that threw a white journalist out of the school, hurling epithets. Elsewhere, a charter school is established...
TORONTO: Could patients be developing an immunity to parts of the chemical cocktail that has proven so effective in fighting HIV? The announcement to this effect by Dr. Steven Deeks, a University of San Francisco AIDS researcher, that people might be developing an immunity to the protease inhibitors Crixivan and Norvir has left many questioning whether the highly-expensive treatment would remain worthwhile. A study of 136 HIV-positive people who started using the inhibitors in March of 1996 showed that within a year the virus had returned to detectable levels in about 53 percent...