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Weighty issues indeed, but we're really just splitting hairs. With two schools such as Harvard and Yale, the difference in the quality of education at each is not what it's about. There's little doubt about the ability of each institution to more than adequately equip its students for the graduate and professional years to come...
...artillery and radars. Once in place, the I-FOR troops, unlike the hapless U.N. peacekeepers, will go where they please and have "the unimpeded right to observe, monitor and inspect'' whatever they like. All sides, moreover, are committed to working out military parity. To accomplish this, the U.S. will equip and train the weaker Bosnian army while the Serbs, in turn, will be required to trim back their forces...
While committees initially considered forming an independent MBB concentration rather than tracks within departments, members worried that such a concentration would not equip students with sufficient depth in a particular area. "Neuroscience is such a broad area that a concentration would consist of a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and people taking it wouldn't have the background to go on to graduate schools or even medical school," Dowling says...
...politicians and prison authorities who are putting the squeeze on inmates say they are simply responding to public outrage over soft conditions--things like the prime ribs served at the annual banquet for "lifers'' at one Massachusetts facility or the federal court order that required North Carolina to equip each of 13 prisons with a set of drums, three guitars and five Frisbees. Both of those examples were mentioned in a November 1994 Reader's Digest article that has become, if not a manifesto, then at least a ready inventory of gripes for the no-frills movement...
...Shouting through bullhorns, Serb officers called desperately for reservists to help fight the 15,000 government troops beseiging their positions. "The whole region is in flames," said one Serb officer, adding that the Serb lines were holding "for now." In Sarajevo, state radio ordered citizens to stay indoors and equip shelters with food and water in preparation for the coming onslaught...