Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Held added that the most valuable service performed by a retreat of this sort is allowing students simply to meet each other and know who to reach when tensions occur. "This moves away from crisis management and moves toward crisis prevention," he said. "Crisis prevention and friendship building are inextricably linked...
...friendship disarm...
...other hand, Czechoslovakia is not so serious as the cases of other countries, such as those in the Balkans. We have no tradition of hostility and national conflict. The Czechs and Slovaks have always lived in friendship; they have never fought against each other...
...basked in this moving display of friendship, this tradition which I'd just entered. Here was the idyllic setting I had refused to allow myself to imagine. Never mind that Harvard's past was not part of my own cultural heritage. For someone who had gone gaga over things colonial--over quill pens, tricornered hats, and Georgian architecture--living in Holworthy, in the Yard, was perfect...
...meet new andexciting people. Bet I was wrong to think thatestablishing intimacy with such delicate andcomplex men and women would be easy. I've livedwith Ashvin for three years now and we've got onemore to go. That first year was only a tiny partof the development of our friendship. Happenedthat he had a girlfriend who demanded all of histime and went on psychotic rampages when heresisted. Jenny, too, had a boyfriend, although hewas quite sane. These people, and some others,would eventually bring me enormous comfort. But Ihad a ways to go before our relationships couldmature...