Word: contacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very calm, very monotonous in his voice, with no theatrics. Once I got through to him and explained what was at stake, and what he could do for his nation and his people, and what he would face if he did not agree, he got focused. Once that contact was established, he reacted very quickly. Had I not gone to him and done that, I would still be in Baghdad talking...
...deal in rapid-fire Mandarin. But this is no ordinary transaction. The men are discussing a straightforward proposition to sell the kidneys, corneas, livers and lungs of executed Chinese prisoners for tens of thousands of dollars. Unbeknown to one of the would-be organ brokers, however, his U.S.-based contact is Harry Wu, the human-rights activist who spent 19 years in Chinese jails and who has just secretly captured their entire exchange on videotape...
...swiftly to head off a new round of ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia. ?The EU knows from experience in the region that if you let these things go too far, they can spin violently and dangerously out of control,? says TIME?s London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. The ?Contact Group? on former Yugoslavia -- the major EU governments, the U.S. and Russia -- meets in London Monday, and Hillenbrand says it is likely they will adopt a carrot-and-stick approach to force Belgrade to find a political solution to the demands of Kosovo?s Albanians for greater autonomy...
...they were really aggressive, library administrators could alter the turnstile key card access system to reject all ID cards from the College. But so far, all lights are green and any contact I've had with the staff, whether to ask for resources or simply for directions in the four-floor library, has been pleasant...
...does the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) exclude any representatives of the group that spends the most time in the closest contact with undergraduates as teachers and advisers (News, Feb. 26)? The committee includes deans, Faculty and undergraduates, but no graduate students. Any change in undergraduate education at Harvard will not only affect, but it will most likely be effected by, graduate students, in their roles as teaching fellows, concentration tutors and advisers, and House tutors. It is foolish to exclude their input. It may be difficult to choose graduate students for CUE. Aside from House Tutors, few graduate students...