Word: abyss
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...incomprehension over how man could behave so inhumanly to man. At his offices in Kigali, President Paul Kagame says: "Hutu fathers killed their own children because some of them resembled their wives, who were Tutsi. How do you explain that?" Nations that haven't just peered into the abyss, but lived in it, have a tight grasp on the price of failure. Those that survive are duty-bound to do everything to avoid a repeat. So when Columbia University public health and development expert Ruxin, 37, arrived in Rwanda and asked where to set up the Millennium Villages Project...
Lebanon failed to elect a President Tuesday, continuing its drive along the abyss. A new parliamentary session is set for October 23, with the hope that a two-thirds quorum can finally be assembled by then to choose a successor to outgoing President Emile Lahoud. But his term runs out on November 24, and the chances of finding a compromise candidate, sources in Hizballah tell...
Living here, in this small abyss, I have begun to think differently about the military and military life. In this cornucopia of students from different schools and backgrounds, we share a common patio, essentially the only place we can get wireless internet access, and a common experience. While work has kept me busy and isolated from news of the outside world, the fact of the war in Iraq remains. And each time I walk, drive or bike past the village for military families, with nearly every house sporting a U.S. flag, the news takes on a different meaning...
...courses of study, others are saddled with professors—or worse yet graduate students—who know next to nothing. This problem is only compounded by the recent delay in concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, which leaves first-semester sophomores largely in the abyss. We hope that the new dean will devote time, energy, and money towards shoring up this broken system across the College. That means not just freshman advising—which has been receiving the bulk of the attention of the new Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere?...
...might remember that Europe, 50 years ago, did not pull itself back from the abyss on its own. Across the Atlantic was a nation with a pretty broad notion of neighbor. Sure, the Marshall Plan wasn't all altruism--the U.S. wanted a bulwark against Soviet expansion as the temperature of relations dropped below freezing. But it was also generosity on a scale never before seen in human history. It defined America in the cold...