Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard does win, it will be one of just seven teams to accomplish that feat. None of UMass' eight losses have been to ranked teams, but its recent success--it has won seven straight--has been good enough to earn it No. 30 ranking in the Collegiate Baseball poll...
...such success obtained at a school with worse athletics than any Ivy League university? Through the fraternities running the events. All of them flew their Greek letters above their post, and each tried to outdo the others so their station would be the most popular. Since the social life at my friends' school revolves around these fraternities, the event was both fun and well-attended...
...success of blacks today speaks to anything, it is to their own genius, strength and amazing grace, not to what Novak seem to believe was American generosity. And what of the not-so-successful blacks, those constituting the majority of the black population whose lives on the bottom rung of America's social and economic ladder are a testament to slavery's continuing legacy? Their predicament stands in answer to Buchanan's observations that because we as a nation today are different from antebellum America, this nation has nothing to repent. The point is that the consequences of slavery persist...
...Either you have your dream or you live your dream," said Koplowitz, as a friend rubbed her sore, swollen feet and treated the heat rash on her ankle. "People need to know that success isn't always about winning...
...this past week, I decided to try something different. Each time I walked to and from the Quad, I insisted on saying hello to everybody I passed, both those I recognized and even those I didn't. And the result? It actually turned out to be quite a success. I reintroduced myself to lots of people I once knew, I met people I recognized but had never been introduced to and I even spoke a bit with some random passers-by. Though it was more of a psychology experiment than a real social situation, it reminded me that most people...