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...eve of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) honored the “100 greatest living American gold-medal champions.” William J. Cleary Jr ’56-’58, one-time Harvard student, hockey player, hockey coach, and athletics director, was among them.The honor was the culmination of a lifetime of honors and successes for the athlete, who took a year off from Harvard to play at his first Winter Olympics in 1956, where he helped the U.S. team net a silver medal. Cleary, who did not return...
...Secretary Rice's offer comes on the eve of her meeting in Vienna with the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China to finalize a new package of incentives and threats to be presented to Tehran in the hope of persuading it to comply with Security Council demands. The Bush Administration's previous position with regards to Iran had been under mounting criticism from within the U.S. foreign policy establishment, and from key U.S. allies. Iran had also added to that pressure by combining its defiance of UN demands with repeated signals that it wants talks with Washington...
...might have been a shock for Adams House residents of all ages when nude males streaked through the dining hall on the eve of Primal Scream, but the sight was especially surprising for Adams resident Selah Piper.After all, most three-year-olds rarely see college students in the buff.“The events at hand were at eye level for her—and she doesn’t miss anything,” Selah’s mother, Adams House residential tutor Lilly B. Piper, said. “Thankfully,” she added...
...cash to show for it--she and her bandmates told their record label, Sony, they were declaring themselves free agents. (In the high school that is Nashville, this is way worse than skipping class.) Now that she's truly notorious, having told a London audience in 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas," Maines has one regret: the apology she offered George W. Bush at the onset of her infamy. "I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President," says Maines...
...night when the whole student body comes together to gawk at just that. It’s a moment of Harvard togetherness, albeit in a voyeuristic way. It’s Primal Scream, natch. Yet from whence cometh this night of au naturel sprints around the Yard on the eve of examinations? Noah S. Selby ’95, currently a proctor in Thayer, recalls that the original Primal Scream was just what it claimed to be. “It was really more about the yelling. People would go out in the Yard or open their windows and just...