Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Both the heavyweights and the lightweights will open at home on April 3. The heavyweights will face Northeastern and Brown, and the lightweights will host George Washington, Tufts and Brown...
Habitat for Humanity Do-gooders get down and dirty as they trek to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. to build affordable housing. Their tasks include demolition, installing drywall, digging ditches for waterlines, painting and clearing debris. The 20 people traveling each only pay $40 for lodging, food and the freedom to explore the cities after their job is done...
...going to be at the University of Washington in Seattle doing a lecture series, and it just so happens that my 19 year-old daughter, who is doing City Year, will be there too. Now you see, I plant my lectures around Harvard vacations. Isn't that clever...
...Easter and Good Friday at Memorial Church under the auspices of Peter J. Gomes. Reverend Gomes has gotten me hooked. He said "show up." And then he said, "feel guilty." Then I have to go see [Bill] Clinton. You might know who he is. We are all going to Washington to have Clinton's pork dinner. It's a recipe that has been around for five generations that he is going to inflict on us. And I'll be there and Clinton will cook it--this pork dinner and its mysterious recipe. and that...
Many students complain about the inconvenient location of Random British University House, but it's really not so far away, and the airline shuttles run all the time. Washington, D.C. House has an overly active House Committee (or several) and a huge House Formal every four years in January, but the upperclass people there are really backbiting and gossipy, and lots of folks transfer out. Once in a while, of course, a senior will decide to move "off-campus," abandoning the Houses altogether to trek through the Gobi Desert or teach English to Bolivian squirrels. Off-campus life...