Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, hundreds of minority leaders from Ivy League and New England campuses will come to Harvard this weekend for an Inter-Collegiate Conference (ICC). Organizers say they hope the four-day summit--coordinated by Harvard students and the Harvard Foundation--will allow groups to pool information and techniques and establish networks...
Alexander J. Pak '88-'89 has not been seen by family or friends since he left Harvard for winter break on December 17. Pak's roommates discovered a note he had left on his computer explaining his disappearance that weekend, and his parents reported him missing to the Harvard University Police on December...
...Friday, police had quelled the protests and banned a memorial planned for the weekend at Palach's birthplace, in a village about 20 miles north of Prague. Government officials assailed the rallies as antistate provocation aimed at capturing international attention. Said the Communist Party daily Rude pravo: "The instigators of these actions are intent on destabilizing our society, on pressuring the socialist state." Instigators such as Mikhail Gorbachev, perhaps? Ironically, many of the demonstrators had been chanting "Gorbachev, Gorbachev" and "Gorbachev is watching you," invoking the Soviet leader whose political reforms the Czech leadership claims to support...
Cormier stresses the long weekend road trips to Penn, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia as the hardest part of playing in the Ivy League. He is also disappointed that the NCAA is considering stripping the Ivy league of its automatic...
...weekend Japan mourned the late Emperor Hirohito. But by Monday morning it was business as usual. Proving that few events, not even the death of an imperial leader who reigned for more than six decades, can turn off their entrepreneurial juices for long, eager businessmen besieged a Justice Ministry office to stake claim to use of the word Heisei (achieving universal peace), the name chosen to designate Emperor Akihito's reign. On Monday the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei average climbed to 31,006.51, an all-time high...