Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard baseball team took three giant steps toward its fourth straight Red Rolfe Division title this weekend, grabbing three of a four-game set with second-place Brown...
UMass put two in the net to catch up, and then the two teams traded goals. With the score at 4-3 toward the closing of the fourth quarter, Harvard scored to even it at four apiece, and the two teams headed into overtime for the first time this season...
Born in 1994 from the remains of The Latin Kings, once New York's largest street gang, the movement has denounced its criminal background to become a political movement working toward the betterment of New York's Latino community, according to the film...
Rene's chauvinistic attitude toward women infuses his political views. He repeatedly conflates stereotypes of Asian women as submissive sex slaves with an imperialistic view of the East. We can't help but wince at cliches such as, "So much for protecting her in my big Western arms" or "Orientals will always submit to a greater force," which he produces with over-whelming frequency. Rene follows in the footsteps of the comic figure prevalent in classical theater, a buffoon so completely blinded by a shallow and childlike ideology that he fails or rather refuses to foresee his eventual ruin...
...November 1997, while other prominent universities refused similar offers, Harvard accepted a grant from Vebhi Koc, a wealthy Turk with strong ties to his government, for the establishment of a Turkish Studies chair. In 1993, the Turkish government itself had contributed money toward the funding of this chair at Harvard. Perhaps indicative of the strong influence Turkey would like to have over scholarly research into its history was the presence of the Turkish Ambassador, Nusret Kandemir, on the occasion of the chair's establishment. He was reported to have proclaimed at that time, "This professorship will help reveal the truth...