Word: reunionize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse Jackson will speak at a noontime rally on the banks of the Charles today to protest the antiunion activities of airline magnate Frank A. Lorenzo, whose Harvard Business School class is celebrating its 25th reunion this weekend...
Wars aren't completely out of mind. The awful chill of Munich precedes every reunion now. At least since Hitler and probably since Zeus, the Games have been an irresistible forum for political commentary, not to mention a handy occasion for defections. But the unfaded memory of the murders in the Israeli quarters still haunts the Olympics. It makes every volatile stop seem fearsome until the hosts -- the Korean people themselves, not the overgrown playground directors -- step forward. That will be the first event...
Faced with such competition and hard work, freshmen may find it hard to make time to play and develop the friendships that are supposed to last through the 50th reunion. "It's a whirlwind," says Pamela Haber, a University of Michigan sophomore. "You make friends, you drop them." Many find that having an entirely new pool of classmates is a greatly liberating experience. Hated nicknames are finally shed, new affectations can be tried on and discarded. "Nobody has to know that you were shy in high school," says Veronica Lawson, 18, a Rhodes sophomore who counsels freshmen. "I tell freshmen...
Speech-writers just don't get enough thanks for what they do. Bob Shrum, the , private wordsmith for the Kennedy family's public utterances, was called in to cobble together something for the convention's Kennedy reunion. He not only wrote John Kennedy Jr.'s introduction of Uncle Ted and Ted's it's-O.K.-to-still-be-a-liberal pep talk, but he also penned the Senator's gracious thank-you for his nephew's gracious introduction...
...away, the nightmarish specter of a North Korean terrorist attack at the Games haunts South Korean officials. Thus South Korean President Roh Tae Woo proposed a dramatic improvement in North- South relations. He called for moves ranging from a resumption of mail service between the two Koreas to the reunion of families divided by the border...