Word: samanthas
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...just a wide-eyed ten-year-old Maine schoolgirl when she sent a letter in 1982 to then Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, asking that the superpowers work toward a more peaceful world. After Andropov responded by inviting her to visit the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith became America's youngest goodwill ambassador. Even before her tragic death in a plane crash last August, the Soviet press had portrayed Smith as a symbol of peace-loving American people at odds with the policies of their Government. In the U.S.S.R., a diamond, a flower, a street, a poem and a book have already...
...without the 158-nation organization, said he would leave "to get UNESCO out of the hurricane zone." The U.S. and Britain promptly announced that they will withhold any reconsideration of their departure until it becomes clear just how far UNESCO will ultimately move. SOVIET UNION A Mountain For Samantha...
...Staff writer Samantha A. Papadakis can be reached at spapadak@fas.harvard.edu...
Harvard started out with a dual meet against Dartmouth and Cornell. The Crimson went in strong with several heralded freshmen—O’Connor, Jackie Pangilinan, Lindsay Hart and Samantha Papadakis—and won easily. Harvard crushed the opposition, winning 10-of-16 events with final scores...
...Throughout the winter, Summers declined to comment to reporters on the future of Harvard’s PetroChina holdings. But according to Kennedy School lecturer Samantha Power, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning study of genocide, Summers emerged as a strong advocate for divestment behind the scenes...