Word: riche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also lost in three, 3-6, 6-3, 3-2 to Petr Koula. Rounding out the singles, the Horned Frogs' Jimmy Haney defeated Styperek 6-0, 6-4. Green and Styperek lost their doubles, 8-3, to Fielding and Koula, while the team of Rich and Barker, which was promoted to No. 2, also was beaten. The only Harvard doubles victory came from the brand-new combination of Lee and Oli Choo, who disposed of Gagnon and Leonard...
...starting to come together as a team, with all the new players and doubles combinations," Rich said. "I thought we compete hard all weekend and showed poise on the courts...
...folks shut down their rig, and Bradley starts talking. It's the best possible way to experience him. He draws the group in, using the microphone expertly, letting a rich Midwestern gruffness emerge in his voice--it's the political equivalent of a Garrison Keillor radio monologue. "There's justice that this is where the presidency begins," he says, "in a neighborhood, on a front porch, on a summer night." He likes the line so much he repeats it, rhapsodizing about "running for the highest office in the land the same way you run for mayor," and never mind that...
Viewed against China's 5,000-year history, Mao's revolution already looks like a tiny, violent, unmatchably murderous moment. But no more than a moment. China is remaking itself at warp speed. Deng Xiaoping's immortal slogan, "To get rich is glorious," has replaced Mao's aphorisms in the same way that the tabloid Shopper's Guide has supplanted his Little Red Book. But the Chinese are discovering that while getting rich is marvelous, it can also be numbing. Communism and its concordant atheism remain the state religion. Indeed, Hu Jintao, a contender to succeed President Jiang, built...
That is why I still have hope. The Chinese people, too, have a rich culture and a long history. For thousands of years the Tibetans and the Chinese have lived side by side. Sometimes there were very happy moments. Sometimes there were very difficult moments. But one day they will see that my middle approach will bring us all genuine stability and unity. I am sure that a day will come when there will be good things, full of friendship, mutual respect and helping each other...