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...quite unfair to imply that the staff of the high school conference derived undue benefits from working with the Model United Nations. Eighty-three staff members worked 20 hours per day for four days (not three as you reported) during the conference and untold hours beforehand laying groundwork for the conference. Providing security by walking hotel corridors until 3 a.m., escorting high school delegates to Harvard and back to the hotel again, staying up late advising delegates and typing their resolutions, calmly smiling while irate faculty members berated personal ancestries, and finally being jammed into a hotel double with...
Barely a year ago, Kissinger stood out as the one prominent survivor in an Administration dragged down by Watergate. His prestige may have been inflated, but he had laid the groundwork for détente with the Soviet Union and relations with China, worked out the details to end U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War and acted as the professorial peace keeper in the Middle East. Since then he has suffered a spate of setbacks...
...There has been no organized effort at recruitment by the University--it was only by the efforts of the four of us (AIH members) that the groundwork was laid," she points out with a note of bitterness. "There are some concerned people in the administration who have encouraged us. But there are some people who feel, give them a little and they'll be satisfied...
This portrayal of the legal foundations of the military junta becomes the groundwork for Heitmann's defense of his government against charges of widespread political repression and of liberal use of torture at home. "Torture is prohibited under law," the envoy says. "People have been rough with demonstrators, but the military has been punished for it." When confronted with a recent report on an investigation by the Organization of American States charging the Chilean government with "extremely serious violations of human rights," including extensive torture of political prisoners, Heitmann claims that the statements of people interviewed by the team...
Thousands of American skeptics have gone to the Orient to witness or experience first-hand a medical procedure that has been in use for more than 5000 years--more than 3000 years before Aristotle laid the groundwork for the theory of Western medicine...