Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"He loved poetry and communicated this to his students," Eck wrote. "Studying with Dan Ingalls around the table at the Sanskrit Library in Widener was exhausting, demanding, and rewarding."
Last week Lee sent another shudder through the tangled relationship. In a carefully calculated statement, he cut away the political fiction that has kept the three parties at peace for nearly three decades. Taiwan, he said, no longer subscribed to the deliberately ambiguous "one China" formula that deemed the Chinese...
In a sense, Lance Armstrong started the race a hero. In 1996 the Texas-born cyclist was found to be suffering from testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs. The prognosis could not have been grimmer. But by the time the dust settled on the 13th leg...
The most celebrated figures in jazz tend to play one of a limited set of instruments: piano, trumpet, saxophone, a few others. The most celebrated instrumentalists in jazz also tend to be men, with women, for the most part, relegated to finding fame as vocalists. Regina Carter breaks the rules...
It now falls to President B. J. Habibie to break the impasse. But even if he upholds the results, the winner at the polls ? opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, who garnered 36 percent of the vote compared with Habibie?s 22 percent ? looks far from certain to inherit the spoils. A...