Word: east
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Professor Tu Weiming, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Professor Peter K. Bol, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Professor of Chinese Literature Leo O. Lee, Nancy M. Cline, Larsen librarian of Harvard College, and Cheng represented Harvard at the ceremony...
...rush to respond to Saddam Hussein's latest defiance. "Unilateral military action by the U.S. will be opposed in the region, because Washington lacks a plan to get rid of Saddam and there's a great deal of Arab sympathy for the suffering of ordinary Iraqis," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "The perception of an American double standard when the country defying the international community is Israel rather than Iraq adds to Arab opposition." But failure to act decisively could leave U.S. credibility in tatters...
...Defense Secretary Cohen on Thursday continued his Middle East tour, finding little enthusiasm for U.S. military action. Washington has no desire to ratchet up the crisis before it has a game plan -- which may be why its closest U.N. ally, Britain, sponsored the open-ended resolution. Right now, Washington needs time to think...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua: Hurricane Mitch may have ratcheted up its casualty figures by faking out Central American authorities. "Mitch came from the east, which was where people prepared," says TIME reporter Lorraine Orlandi. "But most of the damage actually occurred on the west coast." The hurricane's behavior was also atypical: "People mostly prepared for hurricane-strength winds passing through," says Orlandi. "Nobody imagined that Mitch would stay in one place for almost a week and dump so much rain -- most of the deaths were caused by flooding and mud slides...
Last Friday they couldn't get him out. Like a Halloween apparition, Pollard haunted the ninth and final day of last week's Middle East peace talks after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that President Clinton free Pollard and allow the convicted spy to fly to Israel. Clinton agreed only to review Pollard's continued incarceration...