Word: calls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nature of the faculty aside, however, the real education at Harvard Summer School comes from getting accustomed to new people and a new town. They don't call it Camp Harvard for nothing. The workload is very light (there's no way in hell it constitutes a full semester load), and academic obligations never precluded me from exploring the city...
...have a theory, obviously: the networks are in a game of exploitation. And when you exploit, you always have to go one degree further and one degree further. The people who are responsible call themselves the creative community. From time to time they do have something that's creative. But it's less work and a lot easier to exploit than to create...
...call for democracy has reached the living rooms of largely apolitical people. It has planted seeds of the ideas of freedom and democracy and human rights...
What the people of Hong Kong discovered they want is democracy for Chinese everywhere, Hong Kong included. While Hong Kong is democratic in spirit, members of its legislature are mostly appointed. An elected legislature could be installed by 1997, but the Basic Law does not call for an elected chief executive until at least 15 years after the hand-over. But now a fearful Hong Kong is demanding a faster pace for its own democratization, to make it all the harder for Beijing to overturn...
...sailboats topple in the wakes of motorboats. But this year the most visible -- and audible -- combatant promises to be one of the smallest and peskiest of them all: the "personal watercraft," better known by Kawasaki's trademark Jet Skis. "Everyone I know has had at least one close call," says board sailor Barbara Glunn in Miami. "And it usually happened when one guy tried to beat the antics of another...