Word: grounds
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...have established contacts between activists, lawyers, sociologists and all kinds of other academics with the hope that there will be an exchange of ideas so that our ideas here can be of help to those actually on the ground in India," said I. Julia Leslie, a professor at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies and a speaker at the conference...
...much more focused in the second half, as the two teams traded control of the game. However, both Bell (13 saves) and freshman Jennifer Burney (six saves) stood their ground...
...them] haven't asked for it.'' (A prudent qualification, given that each night he was raising millions of dollars at party fund raisers from well-off contributors.) The line that came to him most naturally was that he and the majority in Congress have been searching for "common ground'' that extremists want to abandon...
...heartland of Bosnia, which in recent weeks has seen the Bosnian Serbs driven back by the loosely coordinated armies of the country's Croat-Muslim federation capitalizing on NATO's bombing campaign. The results of that offensive--demarcated on Holbrooke's map--produced a strategic shift on the ground that, working with the grain of U.S. diplomacy, opened the most inviting window of opportunity for peace that Bosnia has seen in years. By the time the Bosnian Serbs had withdrawn most of their heavy guns from around Sarajevo last Wednesday night--thus meeting a NATO deadline and staving off renewed...
...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that the 20th century Presidents with perhaps the highest IQs--Wilson, Hoover and Carter--also had the most trouble connecting with their constituents. Woodrow Wilson, he says, "was very high strung [and] arrogant; he was not willing to strike any middle ground. Herbert Hoover was so locked into certain ideas that you could never convince him otherwise. Jimmy Carter is probably the most puzzling of the three. He didn't have a deficiency of temperament; in fact, he was too temperate. There was an excessive rationalization about Carter's approach...