Word: settledness
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The poet Derek Walcott once wrote, "To change your language you must change your life." Translations can change poems (the Aeneid, for example, has an elegant architecture that's hard to rebuild in English), and translations can ruin movies (who wants to see the dubbed version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden...
By 2 a.m. Wednesday, the government and the airlines had settled on a number of changes, and Secretary Mineta announced the new measures. The steps include: a high visibility display of law enforcement (possibly military police) at big airports, most notably in Washington and New York. All major airports will...
And as soon as Wolfowitz, a zealous advocate of "regime change" in Baghdad?backing dissidents to overthrow Saddam?settled into his office, he told European parliamentarians that Powell was not the last word on sanctions or Iraq policy. Enthusiasm is building inside the Administration to take down Saddam once and...
Powell's public humiliation over North Korea is part of Washington lore. He said the Bush Administration would "pick up where the Clinton Administration left off" in negotiating a missile-proliferation deal with the North. The White House, annoyed that South Korea had just sided with Russia against Bush's...
The Harvard field hockey team embarked on its journey to another NCAA bid with a solid win at home against Vermont on Friday, but settled for a record of 1-1 after its loss to New Hampshire yesterday on Jordan Field in a battle of recent tournament qualifiers.