Word: sores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...information, the FBI is reopening its investigation into one of the most shocking racist incidents of the civil rights movement, the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four children. "It's a crime that has gone unsolved except one local conviction and it remains a sore part of American history that we would like to heal," said Joseph Lewis, FBI special agent in charge in Birmingham. "We feel we have an opportunity to do so this time and we want to take one last shot at it." Since the 1963 attack, only one person, Ku Klux...
...shareholders so sore? Because, as usual, corporate America has a taste for excess, particularly in the sheer number of stock options being granted. With nearly half the Fortune 500 companies reporting, about 6% granted their CEO at least 1 million stock options last year. (An option gives the holder the right to buy stock at a preset price within a specific period of time, regardless of what happens in the market.) You don't need to take off your socks to figure that a stock gain of merely $1--a slam dunk for any company that is not soundly asleep...
...Harvard is sore because they thought they would automatically get the property [when the D.U. shut down]," Zuromskis said. "As far as I can see, they just want to add it to their inventory. They own every other building...
...walked in the other direction from the demonstration, I wondered why those protesting were opting to spend part of their busy Harvard lives standing around screaming. If Harvard were somehow blatantly ignoring the facts of the diversity situation by aggressively and repeatedly under-hiring minorities, then maybe then their sore throats would be justified. Instead, the diversity coalition threw away its potentially great influence...
...fortunate conversion of, appropriately enough, milestones. This Marathon Monday we fete our final day as 21-year-olds, as well as celebrate Patriot's Day and the 25th anniversary of women being allowed to run in Boston's most famous annual sporting event. Tomorrow we will be two extremely sore and tired 22-year-olds, but today, as young and energetic 21'ers, we will tackle Heartbreak Hill on our way to the finish at Copley Square...