Word: begun
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...years and three months, the country has witnessed the fall of a virtual dictatorship--a party that had held sway for 38 uninterrupted years--and endured a succession of Prime Ministers that was practically Italian in its instability. The economy, once the envy of the world, has only now begun to emerge from four years of stagnation. Yet despite all appearances of revolution, the regime remains the same in the eyes of most Japanese. The nation is ruled not by the parliament or the Prime Minister but rather by a force as faceless as ancient Emperors and as intractable...
...evidence that people are turning to their information appliance, the PC, when they need news fast. Like spaceships sent out to seek havens for a doomed civilization, mainstream media are trying to colonize cyberspace, but the early returns are mixed and revenue streams narrow. A few daring publishers have begun--apostasy!--billing visitors to their sites. The Wall Street Journal Interactive, for instance, announced last week that it has signed up more than 30,000 paid subscribers...
...HUPD bicycle patrol officers who have already begun to make their presence known on campus will also be a part of the visibility corridor, Riley says...
Florence C. Ladd, director of Radcliffe's Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, after a long and accomplished career in academia, has just begun a new phase of her life-- as a published novelist, with the work Sarah's Psalm. This remarkable 64-year-old woman began writing ten years ago fueled by the frustration that she had not been able to find herself in American literature. Her ten years of writing have soothed the frustration and resulted in a work that is tightly bound to her own life experience in what Ladd describes as a "geo-biographical" novel that tells...
Since recrossing the Atlantic, she has begun to make waves. Her performance at a celebration of the film music of Duke Ellington at New York City's Lincoln Center in May startled and delighted those who heard it. As she took the stage to sing Ellington's Saddest Tale--performed by Holiday in 1935--her bearing was tentative, awkward. But when she started singing, her performance was said to be impeccably phrased, suffused with emotion; the New York Times said "she might as well have been channeling Billie Holiday...