Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With less than a week remaining before the teeming ranks of the class of 2002 descend on Cambridge for pre-frosh weekend, a crisis over the involvement of ethnic student organizations in the extracurricular activities fair was averted yesterday with the decision to open the extracurricular fair to more student...
The most important lesson to be learned fromthe crisis has nothing to do with pre-froshweekend, student leaders said, but rather with thelevel of cooperation achieved among studentgroups.
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical that anything will come of this. Clinton's proposal for a year-long national debate to be followed by a White House conference on Social Security in December sounds suspiciously like substituting talk for action. That is even truer of the House...
For China, the release of a dissident such as Wang Dan is a gift to the West, in exchange for political favors to Beijing. And the political cost of such a gift may be pretty cheap, says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Once a dissident leaves China, they lose all...
TEHRAN: Iran's moderates and conservatives may be at each other's throats, but neither side is ready to fight it out in the street. A day after violently suppressing a demonstration by 4,000 students, the country's conservative leadership sought to defuse a mounting crisis by releasing Tehran...