Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should be surprised that Rambouillet came a cropper. NATO's fragile construct was designed to avoid answering the question at the heart of this Balkan war: Should Kosovo be an independent state? "The beauty of the interim accord is that no one has to give up their dreams," explains U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill. "We've created this gray thing that one side will call an elephant and the other will call a mouse." Trouble is, some members of the Albanian delegation saw through that and demanded a written guarantee of eventual independence. No way, said NATO. "Sure, they...
...says Pavillard. "It looks beautiful, but it is very insidious, and it never stops changing." Janet Kellam of the Forest Service Sun Valley Avalanche Center teaches classes in which students are given all the information they need to make a sensible decision--the right route, say--in order to avoid catastrophe. "One-half of them will choose to kill themselves," she says...
...jurors, in any event, did their best to avoid large issues. They imposed the death penalty, it seems, on practical grounds, as if King's execution were an urgency of public health, like disposing of an incurable case of rabies. If sentenced to life, King would probably kill someone else in jail, the prosecution reasoned--another black, or a Jew perhaps, so lively and irrepressible boils his hate. He displays no shadow of remorse, and even in the Jasper jail, awaiting trial, he managed to get hold of an 8-in. knife. The jury did not find it hard...
...sweep would earn more for the Crimson than a playoff spot. It would vaunt Harvard into eighth place and avoid a first round match-up against Clarkson or St. Lawrence...
...wants to avoid the embarrassment of missing the playoffs in the 10th anniversary of its national championship, Harvard needs at least one win. To maximize its chances to go to Lake Placid, it needs two--a feat the Crimson has already proven...