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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criticism of some aspects of the department's operation, nothing in our criticisms justifies Dean Knowles' statement reported in your October 7 story that "the department is not serving the students' best interests." Moreover, our report is now seven years old, and much of it is therefore out of date...
What is not out of date is the part of the report dealing with the status of linguistics in other Harvard departments. Citing several instances where language departments had replaced linguists with specialists in other areas, the report expressed concern about the erosion of this essential part of Harvard's resources in linguistics. This erosion, which has not been reversed, puts into question Dean Wolff's assertion that "an instructional program in linguistics...could be conducted under the auspices of a more broadly-based faculty committee rather than of a small department." What is most likely to happen is that...
...group reconvened over coffee at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, with Oakley attending. By then the Pentagon was reporting that General Joseph P. Hoar, commander of the U.S. Central Command in Somalia, was proposing a March 31 deadline. White House officials admit that the date is arbitrary, but they think it provides -- maybe -- sufficient time to contain (though perhaps not capture) Aidid and negotiate a political settlement among clan elders and militia leaders without committing the U.S. to a dragged-out effort. Clinton agreed Wednesday morning -- even before his inappropriate happy talk at the bill-signing ceremony -- and the plan...
...overstayed their original mission -- ensuring food deliveries to starving Somalis -- remains at least questionable. Clinton's decision to go "multilateral" on the more ambitious project of re-creating a nation, a well-intentioned and perhaps even logical choice though that judgment was, has certainly not been a success to date. The U.N.'s initiative to that end could not function without American military assistance, and that military mission has gone astray. In Somalia as in Bosnia, "multilateralism" was the choice of appearing to do something between unignorable spasms of tumult...
With so many concerns calling for stern management, Yeltsin might be expected to stay at his desk. Instead he announced he would fly to Japan this week for a long-scheduled three-day visit. He may have felt he had to keep the date this time, because he twice had to cancel to deal with crises at home. Beyond that, Yeltsin knows that appearances matter. Even if everything in Russia is not completely under his control, his arrival in Tokyo will invite the world to think he has everything firmly in hand...