Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea behind such a center has informed my appeal from the beginning: Harvard must be challenged and must challenge itself to practice the virtues and live up to the principles that it rightly professes. Peter Berkowitz is associate professor of government...
...theaters in droves, despite critics' warnings and often for multiple showings. There's a reason people waited in line for days and skipped work on opening day. "Star Wars," unlike many things in our thoroughly secularized, rationalized, over-analyzed world, firmly believes in and openly defends the idea of something greater, something beyond ourselves. Just a movie...
...years I've wanted to put the operating system known as Linux on my PC. Why? Because I love the idea of it. Linux, which was first released in 1991, is an alternative to Windows and Apple's Mac operating system--though it will run on virtually any PC and most Macs. Supposedly 15 million people use it worldwide. (Since it's available free, no one knows how many copies have actually been passed around.) It's also the poster child of the so-called open-source movement. Unlike Microsoft Windows or the Mac OS, Linux and many...
...caused by the war. "It should be pretty easy to get NATO to move those forces into position for a peacekeeping mission premised on Milosevic's accepting their entry into Kosovo," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "And the alliance is unlikely at this stage to even debate the idea of sending them in without Milosevic's permission." So despite talk of moving tens of thousands of troops into the region, NATO's emphasis remains on using a combination of bombs and diplomacy to secure Belgrade's permission for them to enter Kosovo...
...Lipkin-Shahak's would-be host seems to be in his corner. "From Washington, he looks good," says a State Department official. As military chief he gained considerable experience working with the Americans. The U.S. likes the idea of resuming land-for-peace negotiations between Israel and Syria at the ambassadorial level in Washington. "Lipkin-Shahak knows the issues, has the credibility and knows how to keep a secret," says the State Department source. Plus, if talks between the two nations take place in Washington, the U.S. remains fully in the picture and positioned to claim a foreign policy coup...