Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...lack of ambition. The author of the Cartoon Guide to Genetics, used in Harvard genetics course and the now-defunct weekly Cartoon Kitchen has his work cut out for him: cartooning the entire history of humankind. After leaving Harvard's math department in 1972, Gonick has managed to produce seven "volumes" (read: comic books) of History so far, up to the time of Alexander the Great...
...next five minutes it was all Maura Healey. The junior point-guard scored a quick seven points, including a three-pointer. After a short rest on the bench, Healey returned to hit a pretty off-balance baseline jumper...
Last January, Dartmouth and its seven foot center, Walter Palmer entered Briggs Cage and emerged with a key road victory. Palmer has taken his talent (and, more importantly, his height) to the Utah Jazz of the NBA. But Dartmouth fans are Dartmouth fans (and, more importantly, not Harvard fans) and they'll be back Saturday, hoping to continue Harvard's woes against its Northern rival...
...close to America's heart, if not its heartland. After last year's deal in which Sony paid $3.4 billion for Columbia Pictures, many Americans began to fear that the country's cultural heritage was being auctioned off, bit by bit. Universal is the fourth of Hollywood's seven major studios to be acquired by foreign companies: 20th Century Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch's Australia-based News Corp., and MGM/UA was taken over earlier last month by Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti. That leaves only three major studios in American hands: Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros...
...last week, however, details surfaced that contradicted some of Tyminski's accounts. He initially claimed that after leaving Poland, he did not return until last year. But the pro-Solidarity paper Gazeta Wyborcza cited government records that showed he visited the country seven times between 1980 and 1989 -- with the visa for each trip obtained from the Polish embassy in Tripoli, Libya. Tyminski called the reports...