Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particular, Wrinn said Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs James H. Rowe III '73 wants access to CNN, C-Span and other news networks...
...consider the needs of the Harvard community and its individual members. Perhaps the Kennedy School is concerned that its speakers will be annoyed by protesters; yet annoyance and even outrage are basic components of political debate. The conflict of ideas is truly a battle. Perhaps, aware that C-SPAN was taping Specter's speech for later broadcast on television, Dean Carnesale was trying to protect the image of the University, yet instead he announced to the entire nation that Harvard does not tolerate the open dialogue that is essential to the pursuit of knowledge...
Sometime during the first morning, we crossed the Elbe River on a bridge choked with traffic: army trucks and fighting vehicles, refugee carts, and overloaded cars powered by wood gas, all headed west. At the eastern end of the span, panic erupted when military policemen announced that it was about to be closed. Somehow our truck was allowed to pass, but even as we inched across the bridge, Wehrmacht sappers were attaching charges to its stone arches, and moments after we reached the other side, we heard the dull explosive thump that indicated the span had been blown...
...Harvard reading period is a little like the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Admittedly, it may take place at Harvard, and it may span a period of time (11 or 12 days, depending on which way the stars are aligned this term), but it is certainly not a period for reading...
Until last week, nobody had more than a vague idea of the motives behind the Unabomber's other 15 attacks, which have killed two and injured 22 over a span of 17 years. The targets have generally been scientists or others -- a computer-store owner, a United Airlines president -- who were somehow involved with technology; the first few bombings were directed at universities and airlines (thus the "un" and the "a" in the fbi's code name). That led investigators to suspect that their quarry, presumably a man, had some sort of antitechnology grudge...