Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ECAC quarterfinals are two game series with seed 8 at seed 1, seed 7 at seed 2, seed 6 at seed 3 and seed 5 at seed 4. If the teams split the two game series, a 10-minute mini-game decides the winner. Team W L T Pts. RPI* 18 1 0 .947 Harvard* 14 4 1 .763 Clarkson* 14 5 0 .737 Cornell* 13 0 1 .684 Yale* 12 7 1 .625 St. Lawrence* 10 9 0 .526 Colgate* 8 11 0 .421 Princeton 6 11 2 .368 Brown 6 14 0 .300 Vermont...
...powerful force for change might recall the catalyzing effect of the academic and student community's opposition to the Vietnam war. And those who would blithely defer to the fade at government for leadership in the fight against apartheid may ask themselves why international figures like Nobel Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Jesse L., Jackson came to Harvard to condemn investment in South Africa. Dante wrote that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in a time of moral crisis. In South Africa, an already intolerable situation is getting worse, not better...
...member assembly. The party won 50 seats to the ruling party's 88. But under a complex electoral system introduced by President Chun, who seized power in a military coup in 1979, a disproportionate share of a bloc of 92 nonelective assembly seats goes to the overall winner, with the balance divided among other contending groups. Thus, in the new assembly, the D.J.P. will control 149 seats to the N.K.D.P.'s 67. The real base of power remains in the President's office, but the results should help to make the assembly a more outspoken forum than it has been...
...video narratives focus on actual events and real people, but often include invented dialogue, characters and even entire scenes. Dozens of docudramas have been made, on subjects ranging from the history of American slavery, in Roots, to the perjury trial of Alger Hiss in last year's Emmy Award-winner Concealed Enemies. Many have dealt with personalities, living or dead, who still figure in national political debate...
...Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu said, during his recent visit to Harvard, all American companies in South Africa are to some degree legitimizing apartheid. This legitimization is sometimes appallingly direct. American firms supply the computers that monitor the movement of Blacks and "coloreds" or the automobiles and petroleum that the military and police forces use to suppress the majority. But more important, the legitimization is indirect, because American corporations in South Africa cannot help but lend moral and economic support as well as credibility to the apartheid regimes simply through their physical presence...