Word: primes
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...Kosovo. But with no troops there to enforce it, his legal ownership is a sham. And he was forced to swallow the humiliation of admitting foreign soldiers onto Yugoslav soil. The ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party voted against a deal it denounced as a total sellout. Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj, idol of the hard-liners, could quit the government. Ultimately, Milosevic will have to deal with the dawning realization among his suffering citizenry that after he let Serbia be ruined, he handed over Kosovo. "He betrayed us with war," said Croatian Serb Dragan Miljanic, 62, idling...
...David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister --Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister --Mohandas Gandhi, father of modern India --Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet reformer --Adolf Hitler, German dictator --Ho Chi Minh, first President of North Vietnam --Pope John Paul II, religious leader --Ayatullah R. Khomeini, leader of Iran's revolution --Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union --Nelson Mandela, South African President --Mao Zedong, leader of communist China --Ronald Reagan, U.S. President --Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect --Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist --Margaret...
...Baumohl isn?t even sure he can trust the surprisingly robust number on its face. With so much riding politically on Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi?s ability to get his country?s once-proud economic heart beating again, "it?s a bit dubious," he says. "I?m not saying there?s some nefarious plot, but with so much political pressure for a turnaround, some analysts suspect that some pretty optimistic reckoning was used...
...exchange for the title to Radcliffe's 20 acres of prime Cambridge real estate, Harvard will make a "contribution" of $150 million to Radcliffe's existing resources, thus forming a $350 million endowment for the Institute...
Both University Marshal Richard M. Hunt and Commencement Director Grace A. Scheibner see next spring's Commencement as a prime time to celebrate Harvard's rich history while greeting the new millennium...