Word: reverend
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...Black Students Association (BSA), the Black Men's Forum (BMF) and the Harvard African Students' Association led weeks of activity that included numerous protests, a candlelit vigil and forums in which prominent black leaders like attorney Johnnie Cochran and the Reverend Al Sharpton spoke about racial issues...
...Baccalaureate service is the second oldest part of the graduation rites, and is traditionally a church service in which the reverend of Memorial Church delivers a parting sermon to the near-graduates...
...Reverend Peter J. Gomes also briefly addressed the assembled crowd yesterday and offered a concluding blessing. Undergraduates read inspirational passages from Jewish, Hindu, Muslim and Christian sources, and three of the University's chaplains spoke briefly, offering anecdotes and prayers for the graduating class...
...announces a record $2 million deficit on a $54 million budget, resulting in tightened spending and a future tuition increase of $200. 17 - Twenty Harvard summer school students who enrolled in Physics S-1 face disciplinary action for using prepared answer codes for their exams. On the same day, Reverend Peter J. Gomes is named Minister of Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian morals, and is the both the first black and first Baptist to hold the position. 24 - Thirty black residents set up a roadblock to prevent whites from entering Columbia Point in Boston, causing police to take...
...Negotiations, of course, remain the most viable means of pursuing the hostages' release - although the U.S. pulled back Tuesday from a plan to send the Reverend Jesse Jackson on a shuttle diplomacy mission to the region after the civil rights campaigner angered leaders in West Africa in reported comments that appeared to equate Sierra Leone?s murderous rebels with Nelson Mandela?s African National Congress. But even without Jesse Jackson, negotiations inevitably involve give and take, and the rebels' call for a halt to any U.N. or government counteroffensive reflects their primary concern to maintain control of Sierra Leone...