Word: haven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alfred Giovannini West Haven, Conn...
Khomeini had several motives in seeking to crush the Kurds. Most of all, he hopes to demonstrate the futility of intransigence to all the minority groups. Besides that, he wants to deprive the leftist insurgents of the haven that the Kurds have traditionally provided them. Finally, he is using the Kurdish challenge as a way of raising the spirits and fighting ability of the demoralized armed forces...
...more than discipline may be needed. While conditions on the honky-tonk strip helped to spark the riots, a more basic cause was the trainees' anger over their dismal housing. They derisively call the aging barracks "Idi Amin's Castle" and the "Haven for Thieves." There is little privacy, toilets frequently do not work, and locker doors are so flimsy that thefts of cash, clothes and cameras are common...
...Student Advisory Committee: a haven for young politicos under the watchful wing of the Institute of Politics. The committee determines schedules for Institute seminars, sets budgets and generally wields a fair amount of power...
FRESHMAN WEEK BEGAN MY RETREAT from Harvard, my frantic attempts to assuage my loneliness and frustration by clinging to memories of life and friends at boarding school. I know it's a little unfashionable to praise prep school, with all its elitist connotations, but for me it was a haven, an unrelenting series of academic challenges enlivened by warm friendships with students and teachers. I didn't think I had swallowed the social caste propaganda--I am proud of my Syrian Jewish heritage and my immigrant grandparents. I had gone to public schools until tenth grade, and I knew intelligence...