Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the weekend, each candidate visited the hotel at least once, whether to appear at the specially-constructed C-SPAN studio, to take part in the Bisquick Pancake Flipping Contest Monday or to join with 400 others in the hotel's conference room to celebrate Dole's second place finish...
Harvard's remaining schedule is no easier, as it pits the Crimson against the ECAC's top six teams over a span of two weeks...
Harvard University, arguably the finest educational institution in America, is one of two universities in the nation with reading period after the winter holiday. Over reading period's 70-year life span, its purpose has changed along with its usefulness. As its motives for existence have gained in integrity, its necessity has all but vanished. Harvard has changed since the 1920s, and with that change has come the need for reading period reform. Why does Harvard insist on having exams after the vacation? Why does it seemingly remain a slave to tradition...
...track down, through the labyrinth of fiction, experiences that defy rational explanation. "There is a spookiness about this novel, one that is hard to convey," says Gray. "But Vargas Llosa's meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving landscape and the haunted people who perch there for the span of their lives ultimately merge into a surreal portrait of a place both specific and universal."Movies: The White BalloonJafar Panahi's sweet little tale of a small Iranian girl looking for some lost money has become the victim of an international skirmish over the U.S.'s alleged efforts to destabilize...
...Road to Xanadu (Viking; $29.95), and the film worth a long documentary look, The Battle over Citizen Kane by Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein, on PBS's The American Experience next Monday. These solidly researched works revive a thrilling era in American theater and film--a five-year span dominated by the Boy Wonder from Kenosha, Wisconsin...