Word: creations
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...instead of stabilizing the Balkans, the creation of Europe's youngest state could be paving the way for future troubles. How things turn out largely depends on the European Union, which just decided to dispatch some 2,000 police officers, prosecutors and judges to Kosovo. Their goal, in essence, is to establish the rule of law in Kosovo so that the 15,000 NATO peacekeepers currently deployed there can go home. The E.U. must also keep an angry and frustrated Serbia on the path toward European membership, because that prospect is just about its only inducement to good behavior toward...
...faculty are still approaching the creation of new courses with a sense of “cautious optimism,” said James H. Stock, chair of the economics department...
...decision to transfer much of HMI was far from a consensus. And the Medical School officials who were responsible for the organization’s creation and growth—and who have been succeeded by leaders more amenable to Mass. Hall’s perspective—worry that the University will dismantle in a matter of months the “good work” that took over a decade to build...
...Ellen (Angie Jepson), Alex’s catty girlfriend, and Diane (Maureen Keiller), Mitchell’s agent, become entangled in the events, which begin to spiral out control under the press’ watchful eye. Certainly, when Beane wants laughs, he is capable of conjuring them. His greatest creation is Diane. Acid-tongued and relentless, she is single-mindedly driven to purchase the rights for a play in which Mitchell will (heroically) portray a gay man. Her willingness to verbally abuse all comers into submission until the terms of the contract read “in perpetuity through...
...Even the “Department of Milk and Cookies.” Such a proposal could serve the next president as the first signal of a broader process to demonstrate to our friends an America reconsidering the shadow it casts in the world.Even at the time of its creation, the lexicology of “Homeland Security” drew fire. In 2002 conservative columnist Peggy Noonan suggested that George W. Bush reconsider the name. “Homeland isn’t really an American word,” the former Reagan advisor opined in The Wall Street...