Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only knew hockey as boxing on ice, a sport that could never take hold south of Route 80. He helped free the game from the goons and clear a path for the more skilled, European game that dominates the NHL today. He overcame his shyness to become the perfect ambassador: humble, accessible, nice and somehow impeccably earnest without being creepy. The biggest off-ice controversy he ever faced was whether being on the cover of Cigar Aficionado sent a bad message to children...
...government, for the establishment of a Turkish Studies chair. In 1993, the Turkish government itself had contributed money toward the funding of this chair at Harvard. Perhaps indicative of the strong influence Turkey would like to have over scholarly research into its history was the presence of the Turkish Ambassador, Nusret Kandemir, on the occasion of the chair's establishment. He was reported to have proclaimed at that time, "This professorship will help reveal the truth about Turkey!" Over a year later, not a single History Department course description includes the words "Armenian Genocide." To what truth was Mr. Kandemir...
...evening began with two 20-minute speeches by Charles Crawford, a Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WFCIA) fellow and former British ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Col. Michael W. Alvis, another WFCIA fellow and former military assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Army...
Lavine's visit was part of a series of events at Hillel this week celebrating Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day. This is Israel's 51st birthday. Tonight at 5:30 p.m. Ambassador Dennis Ross, the special envoy to the Middle East, will speak in Hillel's Beren Hall...
Sara Yellen '00's Diana Deveraux stole more than a few scenes, however, not least because of her Monica Lewinsky go-down getup. Cheers to friends Joanna Guldi '99 and Meghana Bhatt '00, as well as to their co-designers, for such subtle costuming. Dana Scardigli '00's French ambassador was impressive as she sustained a wicked accent...