Word: rivers
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When the councillors were discussing Magazine Beach, Sullivan said that he, Russell and outgoing Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 could remember a time when people swam in the Charles River at the beach...
...much in Sioux City, Iowa, where he took a vague question from the crowd to deliver a message of compassion toward illegal immigrants. "I want to remind you of something about immigration," Bush told his nearly all-white audience. "Family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River. There are moms and dads [who] have children in Mexico. And they're hungry ... And they're going to come to try to find work. If they pay $5 in one place and $50 in another place, and they've got mouths to feed, they're going to come...
...innovation--a place that its president, former space-shuttle astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, says "persuades people that the words science, learning and fun actually do belong in the same sentence." The anchor for a $2 billion downtown economic-redevelopment program, the complex occupies a 17-acre site along the Scioto River in a once blighted neighborhood that is already brimming with new residential and retail buildings, renovated office structures and a National Hockey League arena...
...genuine religious faith seems increasingly rare nowadays, genuine respect for religious faith seems even rarer. And the same holds true at Harvard. In the wake of Coming Out Week and a slew of homophobic graffiti in several River Houses, the Undergraduate Council has brought an oft-attacked policy of the Freshmen Dean Office (FDO) to the forefront of undergraduate debate. On Oct. 24, the council created a task force to work for the end of the FDO's policy of allowing incoming first-years placed with gay roommates to change rooms prior to their arrival at Harvard...
...tell the guys [that] we're like a river that's rising," said Fish. "Each player is like a cork floating on the river, and as long as the river is rising, it doesn't matter who's up or down...