Word: river
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world-renowned scholar of American religious history has crossed the Charles River to join the Harvard Divinity School faculty...
...dress up like 18th century revolutionaries and dump 50 barrels of dining hall ice cream into the Charles River? Why not spray heavy cream on Harvard administrators until they provide free lactaid in the dining halls...
They have known almost nothing but war. For a generation men have fought over the fabled ruins of Angkor Wat, the colonial palaces of Phnom Penh, and the rich rice paddies along the Mekong River, leaving more than a million Cambodians dead and their land in ruins. But at long last the shell-shocked country had something to cheer. Cambodians crowded the streets last week to hail the withdrawal of the last of the 200,000 Vietnamese troops who had occupied their country for nearly eleven years. Across the eastern border in Viet Nam, there was also celebration. Senior officials...
...owner of Columbia, Sony will control a rich library of 2,700 films, including such Best Picture Academy Award winners as On the Waterfront (1954), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Gandhi (1983). The company hopes to use that collection to boost sales of its new 8-mm videocassette equipment...
...press coverage of two recent plane crashes provides a striking example of this phenomenon. Each accident had larger implications for the general safety of air travel. After a USAir jet plunged into New York City's East River on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport with a highly inexperienced crew at the controls, both pilot and co-pilot failed to make themselves available in timely fashion for drug and alcohol tests. When a French UTA jet exploded in midair after taking off from the African nation of Chad, investigators found evidence of a terrorist bomb, allegedly linked to Middle East events...