Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After more than a dozen books and scores of travel articles, Morris remains unjaded by the noise and disruption of urban life. She is certainly a believer in possibilities (see Conundrum, her 1974 account of the medical and psychological sex-change procedures that turned James Morris into Jan Morris). It is worth noting that when she writes about the "architectural hodgepodge" and "irresistible activity" of Hong Kong, she does so as a visitor, not as a permanent resident. Home base is a quiet village in Wales where, one can reasonably assume, the feng shui has been good for centuries...
...primary instrument of mass terror during the 1930s and functioned until his death in 1953. According to Western historians, the amnesty may apply to as many as 20 million people, a large number of them posthumously. Another post-Stalinist landmark: the weekly magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta published a detailed account of the role played by the dictator's secret police in the 1940 assassination of his exiled rival Leon Trotsky, finally acknowledging that the killer was acting on Stalin's orders...
Students and faculty must demand that Harvard Real Estate be called to account for its offenses against education, community and environment HRE's management and public relations are doing far more damage to the University than its bungling plans will ever earn back in revenue. If Derek Bok is sincere in his declarations about Harvard's humanistic mission, he will stop HRE from selling off the resources of learning to make a few more lousy bucks. Lecturer, History...
Jenifer had said about 1000 students would be denied entrance to schools this semester because of a need to trim enrollments in the wake of the budget cuts. Students seeking second-semester admission and transfers account for the bulk of the entrance denials, he said...
...makers of Mississippi Burning, in their pursuit of a box-office smash, chose to ignore them. In the process, they have not only turned history inside out but have also lent support to a racist myth. Says Seth Cagin, co-author of We Are Not Afraid, a rigorous account of the Philadelphia murders: "The film suits the fantasy of the Ku Klux Klan that the FBI was an invading tyrannical force that imposed its will on the South because it played dirty." It is bad enough that most Americans know next to nothing about the true story of the civil...