Word: departments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ENGLISH DEPART-ment's rapid transformation makes these issues even more immediate. And that shift has attracted attention at rival universities...
...more than to return from his state visit to Tokyo with Japanese promises of aid for his country's wrecked economy. But the price of Japan's help proved too high for the Russian President, who abruptly canceled the long-planned trip just four days before he was to depart. The reason: months of tense negotiations failed to resolve a 47-year-old territorial dispute over a group of islands in the Kurile chain north of Japan...
Conventional wisdom holds that any sane person, given the chance, would depart Cambridge as soon as possible for Cape Cod or Block Island or Newport or the Maine coast...
...probably walked in and out of the Yard through Dexter Gate 1000 times. Everyone knows the Charles Eliot inscription on the way in--"Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--but I'd bet I'm one of a handful of Harvard students who have memorized the inscription above the exit--"Depart to Serve Better Thy Country And Thy Kind...
...pink poof of cessation. Would last week's witnesses have been happier if California had used a neat bullet to the base of the brain (the method the Chinese authorities favor now)? Or if the state had injected Harris with a lethal shot of cocaine so that he would depart in a blinding rush of pleasure? What was truly cruel and unusual -- virtually sadistic -- was the way that the quarreling judicial stage managers jerked Harris in and out of the gas chamber, the man not knowing whether he was to die or be spared. In that long night, he died...