Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From 1963 to 1968, the Vietnam War catalyzed activists on campus and across the Ivy League...
...student protesters than their colleagues elsewhere. In Bush's senior year, the dress code was abolished and Yale moved to a pass-fail grading system. For the first time, public high school graduates outnumbered prep school graduates at Yale. And University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin publicly denounced the Vietnam War in debates with William F. Buckley...
...pretty courageous to speak out in favor of the Vietnam War on campus because the prevailing mood on the faculty and among the students was very anti-war," Coffin says...
...capsule biography on Gore's Web site skips his Harvard education altogether, going straight from his adolescence in Carthage, Tenn. to his experiences in Vietnam. It does, however, mention his short stint at divinity school...
Unfortunately, the defense had neglected to talk to the highway patrol officers who had investigated the scene, who testified that they set up the perimeter themselves. The prosecution capitalized on the error, dismissing the Vietnam scenario as a ludicrous ploy, and Johnson got the death sentence. The majority on the Missouri Supreme Court considered the defense's preparation good enough to let the result stand, because their mistake was not the "most likely" reason for the verdict and sentence...