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...They've been interesting years when Yale has begun to confront issues in higher education," Turner says...
...Harvard has already begun to confront those issues," Turner says. "Harvard has recognized its problems, major difficulties generic to great research institutions...
Those summits carved up empires, drew new borders and settled world wars. The agenda for the Earth Summit is more far reaching: it sets out to confront not only the world's most pressing environmental problems -- from global warming to deforestation -- but poverty and underdevelopment as well. A five- week preparatory meeting in New York City that ended last month produced 24 million pages of documents. "It's a Herculean task," admits Maurice Strong, the former Canadian oil executive who organized and serves as secretary- general for the giant get-together...
...post of Prime Minister despite his vow not to do so, and Chamlong Srimuang, the ascetic former governor of Bangkok and leader of the move to depose Suchinda, to work out some compromise. Said the monarch: "I would like both of you to talk face-to- face, not to confront each other, because this is our country . . . It's useless to live on burned ruins...
More than 100 heads of state, with a supporting cast of 30,000, are getting together in Rio to confront the world's most threatening environmental perils. Will it be a landmark in human history or a diplomatic fiasco of global proportions...