Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People have already started buying," said Janet, a salesperson at Cahaly's clothing, gift and accessory store on Brattle who declined to give her last name. "There's a nice spirit...
...Committee to End Discrimination by Harvard is concerned "that the Rudenstine administration may be trying to use a small technical loophole in the Verba report to avoid the spirit of what the report says," Gerace said...
Jazz-rappers don't just borrow from jazz's sound; they tap into its spirit, its artful soul and its cool. The music has successfully harnessed the sagacity of an older generation of performers with the rawness of a newer one. Says 61-year-old trumpeter Donald Byrd: "All of the jazz cats, everybody I talk to now, they want to get involved in this." Three new CDs -- Blowout Comb, Digable Planets' daringly laid-back sophomore album; Home, by the rap group Spearhead; and Red Hot and Cool: Stolen Moments, an aids-benefit CD featuring collaborations by various jazz...
...keen. The Ph.D. he received from Indiana University wasn't good enough, jokes Huan Chang, now at Taiwan's Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences. "I had to go to Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow to get myself coated in a layer of gold." There is a frontier spirit in these fast-growing intellectual boom-towns that attracts job seekers with a taste for adventure. Calcutta-born Uttam Surana, an ambitious young biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, turned down an offer from Germany's venerable Max Planck Institute to go to Singapore. "When you work with...
...Harvard doesn't have much spirit to begin with," she said. "If it hadn't rained, there would probably be more people, but still not much spirit...