Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...above all, keep us entertained. Keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure you can do it all without studying if you try. We did. Best Wishes A Grader This letter first ran on January...
...then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom. This piece first ran on June...
...hundreds of first-years looked on in astonishment and the band played repeated choruses of "10,000 Men of Harvard," the group started at Holden Chapel and ran around the Yard in a clockwise direction. They ended where they began and then donned clothes for a victory lap around the Yard...
...ovarian cancer. Thanks to aggressive surgery and intensive chemotherapy, Fisher, a 41-year-old dietitian living in Pittsburg, California, made a remarkable recovery and became tumor-free. But she knew her future was still menacing. Scientists had recognized for several years that ovarian and breast cancer sometimes ran together in families, as if linked in some way. Fisher's oncologist proposed a once unthinkable step: a "prophylactic" double mastectomy. Removing her breasts, the doctor said, could save her life...
Over spring break last year, while at home, I ran into an elderly neighbor at the supermarket. He was a big, masculine-sort of guy, a throwback to the pre-Fabio days when bigness and masculinity necessarily went together, and he was exceptionally friendly: he had spent more time playing catch with me while I was growing up than he had watching the Royals on the boob tube...