Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peace Corps volunteers, Americans are likely to imagine idealistic young folk, sporting sunburns and khaki shorts, digging wells in Tanzania. That image will need some revision when volunteers start arriving in the world's newest developing area -- Eastern Europe. Agreements have been signed for 60-member teams to begin working in Hungary and Poland this summer, and a similar program is being negotiated for Czechoslovakia. In the initial phase, all the volunteers -- whose average age has increased from 24 to 31 since the program began -- will teach English. But the corps is prepared eventually to offer instruction in small-business...
...sense of suffering," which takes her beyond simplistic movement ideology. "Envy and all the harsh judgments . . . are suspended as we return to some primal bond, where nurturing preceded rivalry." But as comforting as the bonds forged in the intensive-care unit are, she doubts they can last. "Friendships should begin slowly . . . If the opening chords are the life and death notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, there's no place to go from there...
...strong show of student support for E4D will definitely be noticed by President Derek C. Bok and the members of the Corporation. As Harvard undertakes its biggest fund drive ever, administrators will surely be concerned if a large proportion of graduates begin demanding accountability for their contributions...
Pilbeam also says he likes government's junior seminars. "It's a chance for real interaction," he says. "I would like to encourage more of the big departments to begin to think about...
...most don't. Tomorrow night the NBA playoffs begin, and most teams don't have to worry much about the opening round that much. The Pistons play the Pacers. The Bulls have to play the Bucks. (The classic showdown: Air Jordan vs. Jack Sikma...