Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although there have been concerns that HAND and the community service programs already based in PBH should not share any affiliation, Judith Kidd, assistant dean for public service, said having the two programs share a building should incite no conflict...
...make sure that there is no conflict with Harvard, that all parties agree and that there is no disruption of the educational mission of the University," said Alex Huppe, director of Harvard's office of public affairs...
...black granite walls. But it has proved to be the most respected, the most socially used war memorial in America, where people come to leave flowers, kiss the names of the dead, make rubbings of the names: an almost purely conceptual sculpture, transcending the bitterness over the most divisive conflict in U.S. history since the Civil War, a century earlier...
...course, a clever person in this situation can find one thing to complain about: things have gotten too placid, too settled, too nice. Aren't we really happiest in times of great conflict and danger? The novelist Walker Percy raised this point in his essays years ago. "Why," he asked, "is [a] man apt to feel good in a very bad environment, say an old hotel on Key Largo during a hurricane?" Percy discussed the estrangement of the commuter passing through New Jersey: his needs are entirely satisfied, but he feels bad. "The Bomb would seem to be sufficient reason...
Suckled on his mother's public disappointment, son Axel pursues power behind the scenes. He becomes one of the capital's gray eminences, "a fixer without portfolio" whose fusion of public and private business seems more like class privilege than conflict of interest...