Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite recalling its birth as the beginning of higher education in America, the University sadly missed this opportunity to re-examine either itself or education in general. Both are replete with problems, a serious review might have been a perfect birthday gift--from Harvard to its students, faculty, alumni and staff, and to the educators worldwide who view this university as a model for excellence. Enjoy your party, Harvard. But forgive us, if you will, for thinking beyond the celebration. Classes, thankfully, begin in a few weeks...
Alas, Harvard is not what it ought to be. And though it would not be a panacea, a fully random housing lottery is the only way to begin solving Harvard's diversity ailments...
...options open" -- in the matter of renewing the leases on Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base, two of the largest U.S. installations in the world. Now that she has shown herself dependent on U.S. forces there, Aquino may be hopelessly compromised when negotiations on renewing the leases begin shortly. Says a Filipino intelligence officer: "Let's not even talk about the U.S. bases, much less discuss them this month. This is a U.S. territory, no less, as demonstrated by the U.S. assistance granted to our ceremonial President...
Long dreaded and long delayed, the forced repatriation of Hong Kong's 44,217 Vietnamese boat people is about to begin. The U.S. opposes the new policy on humanitarian grounds, at least until conditions in Viet Nam change for the better. But the British government, convinced that less stringent policies will not stop the flow of illegal immigrants to the crown colony, is determined to go ahead. Under the plan, the British and Hong Kong governments will reportedly provide about $620 in cash for each deportee, or a total of $27 million if all who are currently in the colony...
Krischer is the worst offender--he makes Larry a flat, hackneyed homosexual. He invariably delivers his lines looking vacuously into space, with his hand pressed to his chest. This becomes so habitual a gesture we begin to wonder if his body parts have somehow been fused together...