Word: spent
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...were mostly led by Western-educated black élites. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's pan-Africanist, earned a B.A., and M.A., in the U.S. Zimbabwean Robert Mugabe is a former teacher who was raised, in part, by the Jesuits and earned four university degrees by correspondence in prison. Mbeki too spent years in exile studying Marxism in Britain and the Soviet Union. Even Mandela was a chief's son and one of the country's first black lawyers before he became a revolutionary. For these men, the struggle was as much intellectual as physical. (See pictures of South Africa after...
Excavating the site of their relationship reveals that, even though the couple only spent a few months together before getting engaged, the two have created a strong foundation for their future...
...parents were incredibly afraid of it when I first brought it up to them,” he said. After Nauert graduated from Harvard last spring, he and Stallings, who had been together for six weeks at that point, drove from Cambridge to St. Louis and spent a difficult few days in his family’s home. While the two were not engaged yet, it was clear that the seriousness of their commitment to each other bothered Nauert’s parents...
While Nauert is on speaking terms with his parents, he spent Thanksgiving with the Stallings family and plans to spend Winter Break there as well...
...have fewer incentives to unwrap their shiny packaging. Now that Tiger's brand has been dented, fans who bought Nikes or quaffed Gatorade at his urging may be channeling their disillusionment into moral outrage. They're less likely to give Tiger a mulligan for his behavior after having spent countless afternoons watching him stalk the course and trounce competitors...