Word: virginia
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Meeting in the Fogg Art Museum, officials from both sides gave presentations on their universities. In addition to the Harvard administrators, leaders from the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Virginia, Duke and M.I.T. took part in the chance to meet with their Chinese counterparts...
...folks in Lynchburg, a town like Laramie, Wyo., must seem a long way off. Lynchburg, in the foothills of central Virginia, is a good candidate for the capital of the Bible Belt: the Rev. Jerry Falwell preaches his Sunday sermon in the Thomas Road Baptist Church, one of more than 150 churches in this small city. Laramie is everything Lynchburg is not--flat and empty, a Wild West railroad-stop-turned-progressive college town. To imagine the two cities is to imagine the vastness of America...
...university presidents attending are Rudenstine, former Harvard Provost Albert Carnesale, now of the University of California, Los Angeles, John Casteen of the University of Virginia, Nannerl Keohane of Duke University and Charles M. Vest...
Although Booker calls Harvard and its accommodations for disabled students a "land of milk and honey" compared to his hometown in rural Virginia, 10 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Harvard--like other public venues across the country--is still struggling to make buildings accessible to all its students...
Finishing 17th with a time of 18:03.13, Radcliffe trailed rivals Michigan, the University of Virginia (UVA) and Brown by over 50 seconds...