Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leave. Accompanied only by my closest advisers and my immediate family, I began my journey into exile. We had to cross high passes and cope with blizzards. By the time we reached the border, we were exhausted and sick with fever and dysentery. I was too ill even to ride a horse. I was put on the broad back of a hybrid yak to be carried out of my native land...
Then comes a visit to the swimming beach in Dixon, Ill., where Reagan was a lifeguard and where, he would eventually claim, he made 77 rescues over the years: "He was deeply tan, and at least four inches taller than when I had last seen him. His chest was bigger, his legs stronger and straighter... Presently he shrugged off the top of his damp suit. The loops fell away, leaving behind pale ghosts of themselves. Midges sang...
...problem is that they don't understand how insurers define flood. I'll get to that, and, trust me, Webster would choke on the description. An even bigger problem is that insurance agents have little incentive to write flood coverage. Meanwhile, many agents and local officials are so ill informed that they mislead entire communities into believing that flood protection is impossible...
More immediately, the staff's endorsement of the Ann Radcliffe Trust is ill-considered. If the staff truly believes that student groups "addressing the concerns of women" have legitimate claim to funding, then such groups should have no problem receiving their funding from the same general pool as everyone else. The creation of a separate Trust symbolically, and unnecessarily, ghettoizes women's groups on campus...
...zany things that we know we might never pursue in our grown-up lives. But it's also here that we learn how to make choices about how to spend our time and expend our energy. I know there's a way to balance our true passions with our ill-fated pursuits, and I bet that Harvard students are smart enough to figure...