Word: visits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most current Harvard students question how informed pre-frosh will be about academic life at Harvard after their class visits. They advise pre-frosh looking to maximize the utility of their weekend to visit a broad range of classes that appeal to them...
...record of genocide was known the world over, Pol Pot inspired affection among the countryfolk who harbored him for nearly 20 years. "The people found him very kind--I mean the poor people," said Mit Sim, head of Pol Pot's bodyguards in northwestern Cambodia until 1994. During a visit to the area last fall, Sim led the way uphill to the remains of Pol Pot's house and pointed out a large rock at the edge of a nearby cliff. "This is where he would come and sit in the evening," said Sim. "When he was depressed he would...
...visit started out a little slow. After playing basketball with some of the brothers, I was left to watch TV while my friends ran a pledge event known as "Food Beirut." For those not familiar with plain "Beirut," it is a drinking game--much like beer-pong--in which people on opposite sides of a table throw ping-pong balls into cups filled with beer; if a ball goes into a cup, the other team must drink...
...streets of Jerusalem. While the one Roth is enjoying the country as a tourist/researcher, the other is plotting a Jewish exodus from Israel ("diasporization"). Together, the two halves of the single Roth show the complexity of the American Jew's attitude toward the Holy Land: it is wonderful to visit, but I prefer to live abroad...
...each other, they cannot. In this chapter of our history defined by proud nationhood, all Jews must do our best to support the state of Israel. In turn, Israel should return the favor of making itself truly a state for all the world's Jews to live or to visit...