Word: brent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first semester of "Brent's" first year at Harvard. He and his roommate "Dave" had just discovered they shared the same birthday--a date which also happened to fall on Head of the Charles weekend. Brent and Dave spent time planning the party; they let their proctor know in advance it would happen. "At the time," Sam says, "I had the sense Harvard social life was pretty lame. Now I'm just deadened to it." They threw a good party. They served drinks but made sure it didn't get out of control. No property was destroyed...
Unfortunately for Brent and Dave, theparty was held on the weekend everyone--at leasteveryone except newly arrived first-years--knowsnot to hold parties. It was also just after thenew Massachusetts laws regarding possession ofalcohol by a minor were passed, which didn't helpthe two first-years. They had to presentstatements to the Ad Board and meet with theirsenior advisor. It should have been a routinecase. Instead, Brent and Dave were landed withprobation, a harsher punishment that the onedescribed in the User's Guide for similar cases...
...Brent and Dave learn from this? "I was sonew to the college it really disillusioned me,"Brent says. "It was not educational. It wasdepressing, frustrating and condescending...
...Panama and later to Somalia to safeguard relief shipments. Bill Clinton felt free to ignore the rules in Haiti, which is what a President gets paid for deciding when the nation's vital interests are at stake and trying to rally the support he needs. "Military force," says Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to George Bush, "ought to be an instrument of U.S. foreign policy and interests. That means you use it sometimes when you don't have popular support or when you have very limited goals." Says Seth Tillman, who was a staff member of Senator...
...situation in Saigon was. Ford had suffered an unprecedented insult a few days earlier when two Congressmen walked out of a joint session at which he pleaded for unity. Late in the afternoon of April 28 (early morning of the 29th in Saigon), Kissinger's deputy Brent Scowcroft burst into a meeting of Ford with his energy and economic advisers, bearing a message about the rocket and artillery attacks on Tan Son Nhut. The President called an emergency meeting of his National Security Council and issued an order. At 10:51 a.m., April 29, in Saigon, Armed Forces Radio burst...