Word: wilderness
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...Douglas Wilder's victory as Lieutenant Governor marked the first time a black has won a state-wide office in the South since Reconstruction, and it made Wilder, 54, the highest-ranking black state official in the U.S. It was a deeply satisfying achievement for the polished lawyer who had once worked as a busboy at an all-white club frequented by Virginia legislators. New Attorney General Mary Sue Terry became Virginia's first woman to be elected to statewide office. Paul G. Kirk, the Democratic national chairman, took the results as an omen: "The unified Virginia ticket," he said...
Lithgow will be the first professional artist to speak at Afternoon Exercises in 27 years, the most recent being Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1978. No one with a background in professional theater has given the address since playwright Thornton Wilder spoke at the 1951 Commencement...
...Henry Wilder Foote, a Harvard member of the first Harvard-Yale delegation in 1899, was surprised by the warm Harvard-Yale relationship. “The Yale men were nice fellows, and we all got on splendidly together,” he wrote his uncle, the president of Harvard, Charles W. Eliot. Yet, “as far as winning was concerned, they might just as well have stayed home,” for as Foote describes, “the Yale failure to score was not through any ill luck, but simply because the men weren?...
Bored by the prospect of another tame holiday spent sipping espresso on a piazza or sunning yourself on a crowded beach? Audacious travelers can now explore rougher, wilder destinations as tour operators cater to an increasingly adventurous clientele. Here are three trips guaranteed to satisfy even the most jaded thrill-seeker...
...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Bored by the prospect of another tame holiday spent sipping espresso on a piazza or sunning yourself on a crowded beach? Audacious travelers can now explore rougher, wilder destinations as tour operators cater to an increasingly adventurous clientele. Here are three trips guaranteed to satisfy even the most jaded thrill-seeker. If you don't mind slogging through thick mud and dense forest, a gorilla-spotting holiday in Rwanda might appeal. Now that relative political stability has returned...