Word: extents
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Prasse-Freeman was taken to the hospital during the game to receive further treatment on his eye. The extent of his injury, and his expected time of return is currently unknown...
First, The Crimson attacks the name of the "Coming Out Dinner," accusing us of mocking homosexuals who reveal themselves to their friends and families. Of course conservatives recognize that many gays find it difficult to "come out." To the extent that the Coming Out Dinner is mocking, however, it is meant to mock only those who feign oppression within the Harvard community, which remains tolerant to a fault...
...What the demonstrations did make clear was the extent to which President Clinton's own hands are tied domestically. Following on the heels of the nuclear test ban treaty debacle, the WTO failure may usher in an open season on the lame duck President's foreign policy. Clinton's defeat in Seattle will certainly embolden those congressional forces that had vowed to turn down the President's deal with China over WTO membership, putting at least a question mark over its passage in an election year. But what's bad for Bill Clinton may not be altogether...
Despite their poverty, Cubans are eager to buy from the U.S. To the extent Castro allows, they are trying out capitalism, creating new private businesses, from boarding houses to pizza-delivery services, primed by the annual $800 million that family members in the U.S. send them. Many even draw dollars from Havana ATM machines, via accounts set up by U.S. relatives in Canada and Europe. But for Cubans, entrepreneurship is fraught with migraines, from exorbitant government licenses and taxes to graft. And for those who have no access to dollars, despair--and resentment--is rising. At the same time, Cubans...
...sweat to avoid it. The Russian army dropped leaflets on Grozny Monday, warning the remaining civilian population of the Chechen capital to leave by Friday or else "be destroyed." The leaflets offered Chechen civilians safe passage out of the city by a designated route until Saturday, but the extent of that safety remains questionable in light of the ongoing bombing and shelling of the city and of Moscow media reports last Friday that Russian forces had fired on a civilian refugee convoy. "The Russians' track record of giving safe passage to civilians in this conflict isn't very strong," says...