Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freed from the fear of losing votes, President Clinton finally feels he can begin dismantling Washington?s "archaic" Cuba policy. "There is a conscious decision in this administration to do what needs to be done," a senior White House official was quoted as saying in Wednesday?s New York Times. "This is a policy that has been held hostage to interest groups for way too long." "What needs to be done" is the easing of the 37-year U.S. embargo of Cuba, which has patently failed in its prime objective of overthrowing Fidel Castro and has long since been abandoned...
...fretted bars of cloud on the eastern horizon go from gray to molten gold, seconds before the sun's rim peers over the desert, it's the closest thing I have ever experienced to being in outer space. Then, as the light floods the plain, its birds begin to move: the black crows, the white cockatoos uttering their first tentative dawn screams, the rainbow lorikeets. A hawk sails over, and a mob of kangaroos hop by. A new day, the merest crumb of eternity, has begun. To see this is to love Australia; it is to become more Australian, even...
...other hand, you're like me, and you don't mind the glare of publicity, then write away! And begin treating everything you compose as if it will someday be published. And I mean everything. Devote real care and imagination to those communications you've typically taken for granted...
Until the agreement is concluded, Radcliffe cannot formally begin its search for the first dean of the new Institute...
...begin by stating flat-out that Belfast is not a war-torn, urban wasteland. There are bistros and McDonalds, university students and yuppies, beautiful buildings and historic landmarks. One can hear British, Irish, Australian, French, German and American accents just by wandering down University Road any Friday evening. And since the entire city sits surrounded by a ring of hills, on misty days it is magical to look out over the horizon to see these amazingly green hills fading...