Word: top
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instead of a top-notch scholar, the search committee selected Wilson, a solid administrator already well-versed in the party-line rhetoric...
Veneziano's 1988-89 men's basketball preview and review articles were selected as the top stories in CoSIDA's District One and are up for national honors later this year. Veneziano's credits also include being editor of the ECAC Hometown Handbook...
...haltingly over his coffee cup as his face betrayed mounting confusion over the disappearance of his water glass, which he had earlier placed behind him. "It's just like an airport novel," muses a city official. "It's like the poor country boy who fights his way to the top and then becomes everything he's been fighting against." Like the emperor, Barry blindly marches...
...proper tribute for Imre Nagy. He was Hungary's Prime Minister in 1956, when Soviet tanks stormed into Budapest to crush the tumultuous uprising that for a moment seemed to promise freedom and democracy in one of Moscow's East European satellites. Nagy and four of his top aides were executed in 1958 after a secret trial and buried in an unmarked grave. Earlier this year, their bodies were exhumed for a formal, cathartic reburial. "Never again should such a terror occur," Miklos Vasarhelyi, Nagy's former press secretary, told the crowd. "We hereby close once...
...really be that easy? Can memory be so short? Can history be rewritten by proclamation of the Beijing Communist Party propaganda department? Eerily, China's top leaders apparently believe that if they repeat the lie enough times, it will turn into truth. More chilling still, Chinese citizens outside the capital, with little access to independent information, seemed to accept the government's sanitized version of events. Perhaps they are relieved to be no longer teetering on the brink of civil war. Perhaps they find a military occupation, 1,000 arrests and a revision of history a small price...