Word: weren
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...celebration reflects not only the move to a service-based local economy but also the city's pluralism. Groups ranging from the Cambridge Haitian Services Collaborative to the Cambridge Chinese Cultural Center participated in the parade. "A lot of the different ethnic performers probably weren't here 20 years ago," Lombardi says...
...convinced that the editors have a hidden agenda. They obviously weren't satisfied with Harvard's being number one six years in a row. So they decided to shake things up a bit, change things around, make the public take notice--and they decided to put Yale first and Princeton second. The ruse is made even more effective and ironic by the recent appointment of James M. Fallows '70 as editor of the magazine. (He claims he had nothing to do with the decision...
Carswell and Lonergan weren't just the best two runners on the team, they were two of the best runners in the league. Carswell won Heps and came in 17th in the NCAAs, earning All-American status. Lonergan, healthy for the first time in years, came in ninth in Heps and kept on improving over the winter...
After losing several strategic areas, Massoud Barzani, the head of the K.D.P., turned to Saddam. As one Western diplomat put it, "The K.D.P. said they were on the verge of being wiped out by the P.U.K. with Iran's help. The Americans weren't coming in and stopping the fighting, so they turned to Iraq...
...education, including his expansion of Head Start, the creation of direct student loans and a new literacy program he unveiled last week. Instead of talking about unions, the President talks about a much more popular subject: the teachers themselves. "None of us would be here tonight if it weren't for our teachers. I know I wouldn't," he told the Chicago convention. And the thing about teachers is, they never forget a name or a face--or an insult...