Word: strived
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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People don't often strive to be second best, but in the case of the Harvard softball team, second best was a strong accomplishment...
...There was an inherent separation," Manning adds, "but we still wanted to strive for connection between ourselves and the ghetto...
With the abiding concern for students that would characterize his every contribution to the College, Jewett ensured a policy that would guarantee talented students the opportunity to study at Harvard, no matter what their economic backgrounds. This policy is a cornerstone of the type of community we continually strive to achieve. Jewett has been one of its chief architects...
...discriminatory for a college program to strive to conform to the athletic demands of its students? Should a program that fields teams in all sports, if that structure violates proportionality, be viewed as discriminatory? Should programs like Harvard's, that offer nearly all the sports played in America, carry larger rosters on its women's teams to compensate for the inclusion of sports available only to men? Do we need to do away with football and wrestling teams on the grounds that they throw off the balance...
...Twain is reputed to have said that history does not repeat itself; it rhymes. There will never be another Holocaust. The exact permutations of history that created it are lost forever, and in this respect every event is a historical singularity. But cracks in a world which we must strive to make perfect surround us. And not just cracks, but major breaches of ethics and humanity. The enduring power of the Holocaust is its ability to wake us from moral slumber and prod us into action...