Word: conducters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...version of a pink slip. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that General Clark, who commanded NATO forces in the war over Kosovo, will be removed from his command two months ahead of schedule early next year, linking the move to alleged tensions between Clark and the Pentagon over the conduct of the campaign. But the military?s explanation for the move may hold more water. "The fact is, Clark won the war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Retiring him 10 months rather than 12 months from now is based entirely on the fact that they badly want to ensure...
...considerations, the idea that shaving two months off Clark?s assignment next year amounts to a form of punishment comes across as strange ? but not as strange as the very idea of punishing Clark. On both of his major differences with the Pentagon and the White House over the conduct of the Kosovo campaign ? his desire to escalate the air war from early on and to prepare for a ground invasion ? he may have been vindicated by the outcome. NATO was indeed forced to step up the air war, and many observers believe that it was only the prospect...
Within the zone, Kennedy was free to conduct his real life's work: not the magazine he launched, or the charities he volunteered for, or the law, but the cultivation of a basic, good-humored decency--an ordinariness that was his last defense against the extraordinary role life had handed him. He took the subway or rode a bike to work, hanging out mostly with friends who weren't at all famous, using his unparalleled celebrity mostly on behalf of good causes. At the same time, he went out of his way to joke with the tabloid reporters who watched...
...easy for lawyers who represent students to criticize the administrative board as has happened in this case," he said. "It's quite a common ploy for lawyers because it distracts attention from the conduct of their clients...
...reasonable Harvard College student would recognize the fact...that a school has an inherent, if circumscribed, right to regulate student conduct," Stearns wrote in his decision...