Word: raine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once again, just as it has prevented rain from falling on Commencement Day for the last 346 years, Harvard has defied gravity. When Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania announced their decisions to offer more generous financial aid packages earlier this year, any Harvard-trained economist might have expected that a price war would drive down the costs of a Harvard education...
Alpine skiing consists of slalom and giant slalom races, which are the same for both men and women. Despite sporadic practices due to a lot of rain and little snow, the team did its best to compensate by getting to the carnivals early and getting good training spots...
...Steady rain and a strong wind did little to dampen the spirits of Chinese dissidents and loyal nationalists who rallied for human rights, a free Tibet, or a united China. Shouts of "Go Home, Jiang!" and "One China" intermingled over Kirkland Street, creating a dull roar inside a packed Sanders Theatre where Jiang addressed Harvard faculty and students and the national press...
...light fixture fall from the sky? Why was he caught in a rain shower only five feet wide? And his wedding photo: Meryl has her fingers crossed! Pod lady or Stepford wife, Meryl has a tang of arsenic in her syrupy voice. And perhaps never in film history has an actress allowed her chiseled dimples to be used so mercilessly against her; the creases in Linney's cheeks seem to be the first fissures in Meryl's crackup...
From relentless rains to devastating droughts, the effects of the climate upheaval known as El Nino are still being felt. Last week, for example, out-of-control forest fires in rain-starved Mexico continued to send clouds of smoke into the U.S., spreading haze from Houston to Denver. But if El Nino's immediate impact on people has been hard to miss, there are equally important, if less obvious consequences for wildlife. In the oceans as well as on land, many animals are struggling to find enough to eat, while others--including disease-bearing rodents and insects--are unexpectedly flourishing...