Word: salem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fanatical, in the heat of the blaze. Then as now, Harvard's erudition and concentrated intensity alone could not insure that the leaders she nurtured and inspired would do good work in the world. Harvard men figured prominently in the conversion of enthusiasm to immoral horror that was the Salem witch trials, and students now-shivering in the same wood-paneled common rooms, watching the same inhuman blustery gusts of a Cambridge winter--may not have that much trouble imagining why The Crucible rings true...
Merrimack finished at 316, behind prematch favorite Salem State and ahead of Harvard and Bentley College, which tied...
Edward P. Markey, director of athletics for St. Michael's College which is hosting the tournament, said that he is "not aware of any early favorites." But Nastala predicted Harvard could take the honors. "Dartmouth and Salem State are probably our toughest competitors," he said...
DIED. Gregory Breit, 82, Russian-born physicist who took part in research leading to the first atomic explosion in 1945, and seven years later affirmed theoretical evidence downplaying the possibility that the hydrogen bomb might cause a "runaway" superexplosion; of cancer; in Salem...
Citibank did not trade the portfolio of stocks heavily on a day-to-day basis, which upset Sheik Salem Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Kuwait's director of U.S. investments. "If you do not do it our way," he wrote to the bank in December, "we'll transfer the funds. There are lots of good banks who want a chance to help us." The Kuwaiti government became more disturbed with Citibank when some confidential memos and the lists of its holdings were leaked to Financial Writer Dan Dorfman. In retaliation, Kuwait last month transferred the $4 billion stock...