Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...space was offered to the organization by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps ill in a meeting with three co-chairs of BGLSA and three representatives from the Harvard Gay an Lesbian Alumni Association...
...sort of felt like it wasn't the body; it didn't think it was their job to do that, and I think [yesterday's participation] shows growth in the breadth of the issues that the U.C. is willing to do," said council Treasurer Edward B. Smith Ill '97, a participant of the rally...
That may sound impressive, but many lawmakers found the Administration's strategy ill-conceived. Several noted that while there is a detailed blueprint for getting troops into Bosnia, plans remain disturbingly vague on how anyone will know when it is time to go home. If the fighting resumes, will the peace enforcers simply pack up and leave? If so, when? What if peace holds only because I-FOR is there? Will it still depart? If so, at what point and at what cost? Ignoring such questions, which are essential to defining a mission, can make for confused soldiers...
...Failure was built into it by an extraordinary orgy of exaggerated expectations," argues Abba Eban, the longtime former Israeli Foreign Minister and veteran U.N. diplomat. The "messianic feeling, chiefly in the U.S.," that fueled it was captured by Hull's pronouncement, Eban believes. "It was the most ill-considered statement in the history of diplomacy, because he was saying that international organization--which after all is a mechanism, not a principle--was a panacea which would make all previous diplomacy obsolete. It turned out to be totally untrue...
More perilous still, we see Allen re-writing his tabloid sins at an age (he'll be 60 this year) when he looks like a pensive Rumpelstiltskin; boyish roguery ill suits him. In TV revivals of Broadway farces, he plays crabby geezers: the tourist with tsuris in Don't Drink the Water, a decrepit comic in a new version of The Sunshine Boys. Yet in his films Allen is the Woody of old--or, rather, of young. To Lenny, the raw, vibrant Linda makes Amanda seem stale and shrewish. Bonham Carter (who's a radiant 29 and certainly doesn...