Word: townes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton held a one-length lead over Yale with 400 meters to go, but the Elis surged and the two boats crossed the finish line together, with the Tigers being ruled the winner after the judges reviewed the videotapes of the race. Cornell, George town, Santa Barbara and Cal-Berkeley rounded out the field...
...nature of the faculty aside, however, the real education at Harvard Summer School comes from getting accustomed to new people and a new town. They don't call it Camp Harvard for nothing. The workload is very light (there's no way in hell it constitutes a full semester load), and academic obligations never precluded me from exploring the city...
Despite these imbroglios, Barry, like a weighted inflatable punching doll, keeps bouncing back. Boasts the mayor: "If I ran tomorrow morning, I could beat anybody in this town." As for the allegations of dishonesty, "If all this corruption was going on, I should be in jail." Some of his staunchest supporters now see the emperor without his clothes. For 15 years, Washington power broker Max Berry, a wealthy international trade lawyer, raised money and campaigned for Barry. Berry used to defend him. Today he gripes, "It's just a matter of time before the next thing hits. It's hard...
...silence. "What he creates is a Teflon coating," explains Washington Post columnist Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. "If you're white, you can't say it. If you're black, you can't say it. In this town, who does that leave?" Race has helped and hindered Barry. Explains friend Carl Johnson: "He's always operating off the backdrop that he's a black male, that he's not supposed to amount to anything." Notes Williams, who is black: "The ultimate irony is that if this guy were white, black...
...despite thorough glasnost-era reporting by the Soviet press and television. Some stories said the fighting was touched off by a dispute over the price of strawberries at a local market, while others maintained that the attacks were in retaliation for a fight last month in the tiny market town of Kuvasi...