Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would get a lot of flack from relatives when I decided to go to school in the Northeast, but what I didn't anticipate was pressure from friends and other first-year students to conform to the Eastern way of life. My grandmother, you see, still wages the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War, if you weren't sure), and she couldn't stand the fact that I might go to the H-school and become or worse yet, date, a "blue-bellied Yankee." (Heaven forbid.) No one was really standing around giving me lessons in how to become...
...most of the time. Karen and I shared a "clean" fetish and spent hours scrubbing the hall bathroom before parents weekend and more hours laughing about how gross it was afterwards; Kim and I had survived pre-med Chemistry together, forging a bond not unlike the friendships survivors of war share; and Michelle and I mainly complained about the venerable vegetables in the Union and spent a lot of time at Christy's and Store 24 buying Ramen and instant soup...
...example, served as deputy undersecretary of state in the Carter administration and as an advisor on national security affairs for the presidential campaign of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. Nye, the author ofNuclear Ethics, teaches a popular Core course on international relations from ancient Greece to the cold war...
Warren Professor of American History David H. Donald has also won two Pulitzer Prizes, most recently for his biography of Thomas Wolfe. His course on the Civil War is--naturally--bracketed this year. But if Donald actually deigns to teach a course next year, take it. He is one of the few Harvard professors who is as accomplished a teacher as a scholar...
Doors are closing on Vietnamese boat people heading for Hong Kong, Sri Lankans fleeing to London, Haitians landing in Miami and thousands of others. -- China metes out swift "justice" following the student revolt. -- After 14 years of civil war, is peace coming to Angola? -- A daring Norwegian rescue saves more than 900 aboard the Soviet cruise liner Maxim Gorky...