Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan was born to campaign: he loves it and does it well. Last week, in the twilight of his presidency, he was back to his specialty, this time amid the onion domes of Moscow. Strolling around Red Square, talking to priests, writers, students and refuseniks, toasting his hosts at gala dinners, the President was unmistakably campaigning -- primarily on behalf of American- style human rights but also, and somewhat confusingly, on behalf of his opposite number and sometime adversary, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party...
Mikhail Gorbachev has never had to run for office, at least not in the conventional sense. But he too is a natural campaigner, as anyone who saw him pick up a child in Red Square and tell him to "shake hands with Grandfather Reagan" would testify. He was running a kind of countercampaign, seeking to present himself as a radical reformer who is revitalizing the Soviet Union and toning down conflict between the superpowers -- but also as a confident leader who would not get pushed around by any Reagan sermonizing...
Radical activism was far from the norm among students in the early 1960s. "I was not a red-hot, but my social conscience did develop while at Harvard," says Daniel del Solar...
Indeed, the Cabot House resident has been a fixture on the Crimson courts. She is always visible, bouncing up and down, her red ponytail bobbing. She is always there for Harvard, and she can be counted...
...Cornell game in early October is an aberration. The Big Red turns the football into a beach ball, batting it as high as it will go and then swooping under it and catching it for touchdowns. With under two minutes left in the game, Red wideout Shaun Hawkins takes a pass down the right sideline. He tips the ball into the air. He runs under it. He tips it into the air again. He runs under it. He catches it. He scores. A minute later, Cornell scores again. The final: Cornell 29, Harvard...