Word: left
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni was left wondering who, if anyone, would furnish the necessary offensive firepower...
...simple task. Yet in 1998, the most current year for which statistics are available, 16 percent of undergraduates chose to identify themselves as "other" or "unknown," according to the Harvard University Fact Book. Due to the paucity of multiracial or biracial students' organizations at Harvard, these students are left searching for a place to fit in. If they want to get involved with an ethnic organization, they must choose which aspect of their heritage to identify with. It is appalling that in a diverse college community like Harvard, a multi-ethnic identity is not given sufficient recognition by the student...
Unlike Brown University, whose established Organization of Multiracial and Biracial Students sponsored its Multiracial Heritage Week during the last week of October, Harvard has no support network for biracial and multiracial students. They are left to wander randomly through their college years with the blind hope of stumbling across others who share similar cultural experiences and can lend them a sympathetic ear. While other minorities have places to turn to for understanding, such as the Asian American Association, Black Students Association or RAZA, students whose backgrounds encompass more than one ethnicity are faced with a dilemma--assimilate or choose just...
...lifetime of playing the loser, the NFL's greatest comeback strategist applied that same skill to his career, winning a second Super Bowl before deciding his pained body couldn't handle any more. You can credit the coaching, the line or Terrell Davis, but the Broncos collapsed when Elway left...
...Although he has alarmed the country's traditional elites as well as foreign investors with his left-leaning policies and his overt admiration for Cuba's President Fidel Castro, Chavez last week received a ringing endorsement from his electorate when 72 percent of voters supported his new constitution in a referendum. The constitution entrenches the president's power and allows him to potentially remain in office until 2012. It also affirms state ownership of Venezuela's oil industry, which Chavez hopes will fuel his "new economy" that redistributes wealth among the poor. While the flood is a win-win scenario...