Word: mission
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...join the council in urging the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) to reconsider this policy, but not on the grounds that it veils some a deep-seated resentment towards homosexuals on campus. Rather, it is because, on a deeper level, the policy is antithetical to the fundamental educational mission of this University...
...committee members discussed the center's academic focus, contemplating broadening its mission to examine Southeast Asian nations such as Indonesia and India...
Nader has already started this path in helping to establish the Appleseed Foundation. The organization, started in 1993 by members of the 1958 HLS graduating class, describes its mission as "attacking the causes of injustice and patterns of abuse in order to strengthen justice and make democracy more productive...
...Just as MIT pushes at the frontiers of scientific and intellectual inquiry, it is the mission of the List Visual Arts Center to explore the most contemporary art making in all media," or so say their brochures. Despite the silly analogy, the List Center is impressively cutting-edge, showing artists like Kiki Smith, Ann Hamilton and Matthew Barney. The new director, Jane Farver, was selected as one of the six curators for the next Whitney Biennial: the exhibition program here has credibility to spare...
...President Clinton's exhortation to the two sides to "stop fighting and start talking," signaled that Moscow may be unable to keep what it considers a domestic matter from becoming an international concern. "Russian foreign policy recognizes the U.N. as the final arbiter of international justice, and a U.N. mission to assess the needs of refugees that makes it harder for Moscow to control the way the conflict is presented internationally," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Because Chechnya is its sovereign territory, Moscow insists that there are no refugees in Chechnya, only internally displaced people...