Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precisely this boldness and individualism which offends others draws Wright to these thinkers. The clarity and friendliness of the author's prose allows us to enjoy a triptych of scientists at work. We watch each of them grow with their ideas, which both guide them and are in turn reshaped by their contributions...
...wasn't that long," jokes McCluskey, now a professor in the Afro-American Department at Indiana University. "You've got to remember that Harvard has only been playing football since the turn of the century, so it had actually been only 70 or 80 years...
Students, in turn, must voice their support for this proposal and let the administration know how important a center would be. This is one issue where student activism and a strong undergraduate voice could bring about results...
After the turn of the last century, the different ethnic populations stabilized and became primarily Italian, as the Jewish and Irish people who had previously lived in the area moved out to the surrounding suburbs and to other areas of Boston. "They wanted a house and a yard," says Nina R. Meyer, director of Boston's Historic Neighborhood Foundation, which runs discovery programs about the neighborhood. "It was just the American Dream...you moved...
...Governor Mario Cuomo to appoint Abrams as a special prosecutor for the case. But instead of cooperating with Abrams, the three--probably because they were aware that the case was a hoax--refused to help and began accusing Abrams of unjustified racism. They went on the attack, trying to turn the Brawley case into a vehicle for their self-promotion...