Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students agreed that [no guests] would be the best idea until we come up with a new plan," Goldschmid said...
...talk among policymakers has never progressed beyond the instant conclusion that "we don't think the American people would support that." Neither, they reckoned, would Congress. They didn't order up contingency plans for such an operation or even broach the subject with Clinton, who remains opposed to the idea...
Some planners talked instead of dispatching a much smaller force of, say, 30,000 or so to carve out "safe havens." But the idea carries such a negative image after enclaves set up in Bosnia--like Srebrenica--failed so tragically to protect civilians. Others suggested turning the war over to a proxy army of K.L.A. fighters outfitted by the West with effective Stinger missiles and antitank rockets. But U.S. and NATO officials feared that arming one side would only widen the war and destabilize the entire region. By now it may simply be too late: on Friday Serb officials were...
...millennium, but I must conclude, with the greatest sadness and reluctance, that the person who had the most profound impact on the events of the 20th century was also the century's most evil person: Adolf Hitler. The century was filled with inspirational leaders who advanced its most powerful idea, freedom of the individual--people like the two Roosevelts, Churchill, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. But the poison unleashed by Hitler and his terrible contemporary Joseph Stalin survives. Not only must we still mourn, at century's end, the tens of millions who died as a result of their...
...letters from college admissions offices were sent out last week, I couldn't help recalling the late R. Hugh ("Pat") Uhlmann, a Dartmouth man of antic temperament, who used to tout a daring idea for taking the pressure off any college that is regularly forced to turn away the progeny of many prosperous and influential citizens: Auction off the last 10 places in the class...