Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...most disappointing performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream comes from Tom Chick, who plays Oberon's jester Puck, who unfortunately gets a little confused about who should be loving whom. Chick is flat rather than impish, insipid instead of intelligent. Puck is normally the most memorable character of this comedy--but not in this production...
...Senior Gift is not part of any "accounting gimmick"; Harvard uses the same percentage of endowment income each year, and that percentage is not affected by how much money is raised from seniors, alumni or any other source. Thus, the Senior Gift is not a substitute for endowment income. Instead, the amount of money we raise will add additional support to financial aid and operating costs this year...
...attitude of the U.S. Government. Fifteen years after U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin slipped away in the predawn darkness of a collapsing Saigon, the U.S. has yet to establish diplomatic relations with the government of Vietnam. Washington continues to act as if Hanoi had sent its troops to invade Virginia instead of down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Since 1975, the U.S. has imposed a trade embargo against Vietnam that has been more effective than the mining of Haiphong harbor ever was. It has helped keep Vietnam's badly managed economy on its knees, which in turn has encouraged a steady...
...congratulatory way about what an erudite, incisive film critic and all-around wonderful guy she is married to, one has to fight the urge to stuff a sock in her mouth. But every few pages, she comes up with an observation so brilliantly right, so original, that one says instead, Molly, pull up a chair and please, please, keep talking...
...March 23 decision to name the country the Czecho-Slovak Federative Republic was intended to appease angry Slovaks. Instead, it only increased nationalist ire. In the following weeks thousands marched in their provincial capital of Bratislava, calling for Slovak independence. The new designation is intended to provide equal ethnic billing...