Word: raft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Life Raft meets for two hours every Monday, 52 weeks a year, in the basement of Memorial Church. "Life threatening illnesses do not follow the academic calendar," Bunn explains...
...felt Harvard lacked a place for people to go when they needed help dealing with their own terminal illnesses or deaths in their families. So in 1983, Minifie founded Life Raft, a support group for members of the Harvard community...
Students, faculty and staff who are affiliated with Harvard can attend the meetings. At any given time, says Bunn, between 30 and 40 people are participating in Life Raft. But there are usually between eight and 12 people at each meeting. Bunn attends all of the meetings, though she says, "it works best when I say the least...
NOTHING SACRED George F. Walker wryly adapted Turgenev's Fathers and Sons so that student anarchism in 1860s Russia paralleled the polemics of Marxist collegians in 1960s America. Tom Hulce (Amadeus) starred in the first of a raft of U.S. stagings, at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...
Most Administrations enter office promising a raft of new faces and a basketful of policy initiatives. As the first sitting Vice President to be elected since Martin Van Buren succeeded Andrew Jackson, Bush offers mostly continuity. His campaign produced enough new ideas to fill a 347-page campaign booklet. But the proposals, with the notable exception of a few tax-cutting ideas, were created more in response to political pressures than out of personal convictions...