Word: added
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as it ad-libbed adjustments, the West, led by President Clinton, put on a brave face, insisting the alliance's unity, patience and determination would not crack. "Just remember, everybody, we knew we were going to take some hits on this," Clinton reminded his inner circle. "We knew this going in, so we've got to stay the course." But outside the White House, it was hard to understand what "the course" now was. As bombs kept falling, refugees kept fleeing and Milosevic refused to budge, it was no longer clear what a NATO victory would look like...
President Rudenstine has formed a new Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies to review the University's policies with regard to that "contingent workforce" and to make recommendations to the Deans and others, and ultimately to him. The committee, which will be chaired by Quinn Mills, a professor of business administrations, has just been formed and will begin its work shortly...
...Elster, a former Kirkland House resident, pled guilty in September to raping a female undergraduate in February, 1998. While Elster's case has not yet appeared before the Faculty, the Ad Board has recommended that he be dismissed...
...know the huge adrenaline rush of low flying. It is addictive, and the faster and lower the better. Sensations are heightened in valleys, with mountainsides just off the wing tips. It is a visual flying process and certainly no place for inept pilots. This is no place for ad hoc or reckless flying. There can be no excuses: there is no escape from this ultimate responsibility. There is no air-traffic controller, no guardian angel. Low-flying accidents are usually fatal and are always traumatic. In any pilot-error accidents that are survived, powerful, protective psychological forces are at work...
...advisers no longer bother to deny it. He really believes that we all could get along fine if only he were around to lead us in a big conflict-resolution workshop. He normally keeps that stuff under wraps, but it was on display last Tuesday in a mostly ad-libbed speech at a conference of government unions. "I want us to live in a world," he said, "where we get along with each other, with all of our differences...