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...swept aside one of Washington's most valiant efforts at Middle East peace keeping to date: the fragile, unwritten cease-fire between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, crafted just eleven months earlier by U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib. Its collapse confronted Washington with one of the more awkward dilemmas it has faced in the explosive Middle East...
...order to fix the facts he loved-the blurred motion of a spoked wheel, the tilt of a catboat beating to windward, the awkward play of a naked boy's legs as he dives-Eakins produced a mass of preparatory work, in many mediums. Convinced that the camera was truth, he took photographs and worked from them; he was one of the first American artists to do so. He made drawing after drawing, from mere thumbnail sketches to stupendously elaborate perspective studies that include notes on such minutiae as eight cross sections of an oar from loom to blade...
...twice as many of theirs on big land-based missiles. In turn, the U.S. would have to dismantle almost 2,500 submarine-based warheads, while the Soviets could add to their fleet. Reagan's speech, with its stated focus on land-based warheads, put some Americans in the awkward position of doubting the sincerity of their own leader. Said former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie: "What troubles me about the program is that it may be a secret agenda for sidetracking disarmament...
...kelp. Those not giggling were celebrating. Argentine children waved flags; British children waved flags. Except for mothers, who know better, and politicians, who ought to, almost everyone was certain that this was going to be oh such a lovely war, so different from the common run, with all those awkward screams and telegrams...
Although President Horner sits on several curricular committees of Harvard College. Radcliffe is in the awkward position of having to offer its students the education that Harvard College chooses to provide. Radcliffe does not have an undergraduate concentration in women's studies, for example, or indeed many courses in women's studies at all, simply because Harvard does not How active a force Radcliffe is in pushing for a greater role for women's studies in undergraduate courses is a subject of some debate...