Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike at most major schools, athletes are not given additional academic resources. Harvard does not provide its athletes with study halls and tutors like at Holy Cross, for instance...
...room hideaway in Palm Beach, happily pointing out some of the valuables that he acquired when he purchased the 17.5-acre estate, furnishings and all, for a "bargain" $7 million in 1985. "Do you believe this?" he asked, brandishing a gold dinner plate. "I make great deals." Cross him, however, and the frisky golden retriever can begin to snarl...
...horror of events in Biafra unfolded, Kouchner became convinced that Recamier was right. When Nigerian forces closed in on the hospital where Kouchner was working, the doctors asked to evacuate their patients. The Red Cross ordered them to stay on the grounds that they would be safer in a hospital under the Geneva Conventions. As the troops drew near, many patients bolted into the forest. "It was unbelievable," recalls Kouchner, who is now France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action. "Some of them were | carrying their own plasma bags. Others had been operated on, and their intestines were hanging...
...most countries can piously deny their involvement. As last week's verbal cross fire over Libya indicated, it is not easy to distinguish between factories that manufacture fertilizers, pesticides or pharmaceutical products and those that produce chemical weapons. Experts say that with just the turn of some levers or the change of a catalyst, a plant can convert from the production of pest killers to people killers in as little as 24 hours. Small wonder, then, that the U.S. spurned Libya's offer for a one-time inspection of the facility at Rabta...
...commission, which is unconnected to both West Point and the Army, was established to "get a cross section of experts in different fields," said Hamburger...