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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...been a "waste of time." But while the public's time should not be wasted debating nickels and dimes, the council should have been more candid about subjecting this amendment to some level of public scrutiny. Nobody doubts that public officials should have salaries adjusted for inflation. But this particular salary hike yields a net increase, after adjusting for inflation, of roughly 20 percent...
...after filling out the form online, I couldn't help but feel that there were questions that had gone unasked, both general ones which would apply to any senior class at Harvard, and questions about these particular four years, from 1996 to 2000, which have shaped this senior class. For reasons of statistical continuity, the survey questions can't change all that much from year to year, and the length of the survey can't get too unwieldy, but if I had been able to add questions for this and future years, here's some of what I would have...
...barbaric tyrant who has been aided and abetted by the international community. Had the Ian Smith regime of the '60s and '70s prevailed, Zimbabwe would now be well down the democratic road to equitable land distribution as well as peace and harmony--not to mention economic stability. Britain, in particular, has a lot to answer for, especially the lives of the white farmers (and their loyal black workers) who are being sacrificed on the altar of political expedience. DAVID J. PARSLEY Johannesburg...
OSCAR VERSION Laurence Olivier, Honorary Oscar, 1979: "In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities, this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it--the prodigal, pure human kindness of it--must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow...
...Unable to defend itself against the rebels initially, the elected government had hired mercenaries to fight the rebels, and, in particular, to protect the diamond fields. Part of the mercenaries' price was that they wanted a slice of the diamond industry themselves as part of their payment. And that's something the West found objectionable. So part of the condition for foreign assistance through the U.N. and the World Bank was that the government had to get rid of the mercenaries. The problem is that once the mercenaries withdrew, the rebels quickly overran the diamond fields and that changed...