Word: upon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years at Harvard, she has chaired the Adams House Committee, served on the Undergraduate Council for two years, risen to the ranks of officer in the Hasty Pudding Club, and founded the Arab Students Association and the Arab-Jewish Dialogue. And all the while, Khalil, who accepted sophomore standing upon entering Harvard, has earned not only an honors B.A. in Government, but also a masters in Middle Eastern Studies...
Ruddick, who chose the former and upon graduation next January may begin a career as a full-time labor organizer, sees a difference between the activism of 20 years ago and that in which she participates...
...thinkabout things has changed. And I've always been twodifferent people at home and at school. Now thatthis distinction is about to be dissolved, I haveto begin figuring out which one is me. The beautyand charm of going away to college is the processof self-understanding that is forced upon you. Theugly danger lies in the odd chance that you mightnot like what...
...this way, my successor will have plans and agreements for the 1990s with which he could live," Ueberroth said. "I didn't think it would be fair to the owners and my successor to allow the institution to suffer from the situation in which I found it upon taking office...
...family he left behind. When his younger brother Henry is fatally wounded in a steamboat explosion, the youthful Clemens rushes to his side. He "prayed as never man prayed before," he writes his sister, "that the great God . . . would pour out the fulness of his just wrath upon my wicked head, but have mercy, mercy, mercy upon that unoffending...