Word: raine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last season the energy never waned. Down 12-8 in the fourth quarter in a bone-chilling rain against Princeton, then-sophomore Mike Giampaolo kicked two fourth-quarter field goals--including a career-long 43-yard game-winner--to pull victory from the jaws of defeat...
Braving a light rain, the protesters created a human billboard to display their message. Wearing bathrobes over their clothes, they opened the bathrobes to reveal letters spelling the words "Full Disclosure...
Last winter, when a Chinese instead of a South African flag flew over Harvard Yard, no one was giving Jiang Zemin any honorary degrees. He came on a cold day with rain falling like freezing spikes, and thousands of protesters greeted his fleet of black limousines before he was safely delivered to Sanders Theatre. Like Mandela's speech, the content of Jiang's was largely irrelevant. The Chinese president's visit, also like Mandela's, was preceded by speeches from a flock of Harvard professors...
Indoors and outdoors, winter and summer, rain and sun, silence and music, protesters hounding the speaker and fans fighting to get in, the cold shoulder received by one guest and the honorary degree received by the other--these elements of the two leaders' visits made me see the two men as something much larger than either of them actually were. Instead of two political figures, one a freedom fighter and the other fighting freedom, Nelson Mandela and Jiang Zemin became the avatars of Good and Evil. To the aspiring future leaders in the audience, it was as if some higher...
...fall: seniors were given reserved seats, the dais was lined with Harvard's specialists in appropriate fields and the program, rife with preliminary speakers and musical interludes, was as reflective and inspirational as a Commencement valedictory. And, of course, just like all Harvard Commencements, it did not rain...