Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard tennis program knew that its life with the Blake brothers would be short lived. The two would dominate the tennis circuit together, often playing on the same doubles team, for one year until it was time for senior Tom to graduate. Freshman James would then continue the Blake legacy in Harvard tennis for three more years...
This was the 9th annual DFMC to raise money for the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research...
...frequently detained by police for running guns. By 16, he was old enough to be sent to prison, charged with weapons possession and membership in Fianna, the junior branch of the illegal I.R.A. He served eight years. Now McConville, 38, wears a tie, runs an antidrug program while toiling on a master's degree in computer science. He is still active in the republican movement, albeit in its nonviolent branch. An agreement, he says, was necessary even if it brings unwanted compromises. The alternative is more violence. "Anyone who has been involved in armed struggle will do anything to avoid...
...gazillion a year blow off a few hours of his day just to pick up a few pairs of sneakers? Human nature, I'm guessing--free stuff just smells so good. But some honchos really are too busy, and for them Tracy has set up a Nike outreach program. It is by all accounts her most impressive achievement...
Backers of diversity are taking notice. Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit consortium of lawyers, provides 50 scholarships to minority undergraduates to attend a 16-session Kaplan LSAT course. Kaplan has set up a similar voucher program in California. The New York City-based Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund offers students at six historically black universities Princeton Review courses for $375--half the regular price. "In the short term," Sharlot says, "nothing could be more helpful in increasing the pool of competitive minority applicants than access to the prep courses." He may be right: last summer 16 students took a Princeton Review course...