Word: uva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor at the University of Virginia once said he thought students came to UVA with the sole ambition of walking up and down Rugby Road--a kind of frat row--drunk, and with cups on their heads. At Harvard, there are those who are as proud of soberly donning their black "FCS" hats (Final Clubs Suck) as those who delight in sporting their crimson "H" hats. Other walk around wearing "X" hats, while a few wear "XTS" hats. Blake said it well, "Without Contraries is no progression." Harvard is a hundred competing parades with only two shared themes: direction...
COLLEGE CHOSEN REASON WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (2) free rides UC BERKELEY no reason specified CORNELL location MOREHOUSE/GEORGIA TECH Ronald McNair NASA science program NYU free ride; better recruitment SWARTHMORE scholarship; poor recruitment UVA free ride YALE (6) free ride (ROTC); drama program; location NORTHWESTERN full athletic scholarship DREW free ride STANFORD (5) better aid packages; better engineering MIT (3) better engineering HAMPTON historically Black college EMORY (2) better aid packages BRYN MAWR no reason specified DUKE (4) free rides; better aid package GEORGIA TECH free ride USC school of film and cinema NOTRE DAME full 4-year scholarship RUTGERS better...
...Some emigres are even preparing to sell their property and return to their homeland. To Miami Herald columnist Sergio Lopez-Miro, such actions constitute "wishful thinking cum madness." Or call it hope -- the same hope that people like the Fidelista in Santiago have been searching for in the dark. Uva Clavijo, a Miami-based fiction writer who came to the U.S. in 1959 at the age of 15, has decided she will return to Cuba if Castro falls, and she believes it will be soon. "History has accelerated, and he can't go against history," she says. "Communism is crumbling...