Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welcome Chairman Jiang to campus, we should welcome the protesters, as well. But we should also struggle against our provincialism and attempt to recognize China as a rising nation with the right to chart its own future guided by its own principles. Only by doing so will we come closer to understanding China and establishing a base of mutual respect for the most important bilateral relationship of the 21st century.--Greg Pilarowski, Harvard Law School...
...Even closer to home for many student groups, though, is the funding the Foundation provides to support events ranging from study groups to food fests...
...provide a solution to the true problem--that entrance through the main doors of the dorms is just too easy. Yard Facilities Manager Merle A. Bicknell performed an unscientific test of security, gaining access to all first-year dorms without either identification or a key. Students should certainly keep closer watch on who's walking into their dorms behind them, but a more tangible solution might be to provide all students with universal key-card access. No longer would students assume that someone being let in is a fellow undergraduate without...
...gross domestic product and many of the most powerful media outlets. Last year they played a major role in the re-election of President Boris Yeltsin. To say, as many Russians do, that the oligarchs run the country is an exaggeration. To say they would like to is closer to the truth...
...widening fund-raising investigation that threatens to topple current Teamster president Ron Carey has brought Hoffa closer than ever to reviving the family dynasty. Carey has spent time before a federal grand jury investigating an illegal scheme to divert union money to his campaign during his 1996 re-election bid, in which Hoffa was narrowly defeated. And it's far from certain that Carey will even be allowed to participate in the rerun election scheduled to begin in January. Hoffa, meanwhile, is out campaigning, raising money, plugging a reformist platform and decrying what he describes as the "biggest scandal...