Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called home from Europe the summer after freshman year and told my parents to pay the bill. I had reconsidered, I told myself, and determined that staying at Harvard was the right move. I reasoned that freshman year really hadn't been so bad. Second semester had been better than first, and I really didn't want to start learning a new system. I also told myself that if Harvard had problems, I should stay and help initiate changes. Most of what I told myself, especially the latter part, was just a bunch of crap. I had chickened...
...high school came to Harvard with me, but surprisingly, I knew quite a few of my classmates by the time September rolled around. I had met one of my other roommates, Ghary, and several other classmates at the Harvard model U.N. my senior year. I spent the summer after high school in Israel and met four of my future classmates there...
...funniest--albeit weirdest nights of the year--came the last Saturday night before we went home for the summer. I still had one exam left the next Tuesday, but one of the women upstairs had finished and was having a year-end party. She had bought a lot of champagne and had invited a few friends over to say farewell. We were all sitting around playing some innocuous drinking games, when Stuart arrived and suggested we play "I Never." You would go around the room and declare something you had never done; everyone who had done it had to drink...
...Supreme Court in recent years had seemed to favor some erosion of Thomas Jefferson's sturdy "wall of separation between church and state." Both sides expected the trend to continue after the court scheduled new religion cases this term. But last week, as it recessed for the summer, the court confounded the prognosticators. For the third time in a month, the Justices took a tough stand against allowing government and religion...
...past the Perry family seemed to have done everything right. Edmund, ^ whose hard-working mother Veronica taught in a local Headstart program and served on the community school board, had wanted to become a doctor, but was also considering a career in politics. He had planned to spend the summer working at a Wall Street investment house before heading for Stanford. To teachers, neighbors and friends of the family, the Perry brothers stood as prime examples of what the black community's youth could achieve. "Everybody looked up to Jonah and Edmund," Sheila Wright, a neighbor, told the New York...