Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When I asked for Radcliffe's co-sponsorship of the Barone Center's project to assess the media's portrayal of women, she immediately asked whether it could involve an undergraduate conference or offer some other means of serving undergraduates...
HARVARD officials usually offer two justifications for the policy of favoring legacies. Their primary reason is that legacy preference helps encourage contributions from alumni. The second is that it supposedly fosters a sense of loyalty and community with Harvard. We find both reasons morally indefensible...
...until the government agrees to negotiate" with recognized black leaders. In addition, wrote Mandela, white South Africans will have to "accept that there will never be peace and stability in this country" until the principle of majority rule is accepted. The distance between these demands and De Klerk's offer to negotiate a division of political power could be too great for even Nelson Mandela to bridge...
...Laurence Olivier. As he did in the film, Branagh onstage would triple as impresario, director and star -- with the fillip of featuring his wife of five months, Emma Thompson, as Midsummer's willowy Helena and Lear's gnarled Fool. Despite the troupe's alphabetical billing, what was on offer was plainly a star turn...
...struck by how petty some of the conflicts were. "Once," he says, "the Azerbaijanis were offended that their republic's flag had been taken down by the locals from a building in Stepanakert ((the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh)). Put up the flag again, they said, have the Armenians offer a public apology, and we will end our blockade and let supplies through. Then Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh refused to receive food from Azerbaijan. If it was Azerbaijani margarine, they wouldn't take it. They wouldn't accept eggs from Baku. Our chairman finally told them it wasn't the Azerbaijanis...