Word: insists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considering all of the publicsquabbles--Radcliffe charging Harvard for rent touse Byerly Hall, Harvard claiming Radcliffe shouldnot insist upon an official role in the lives ofundergraduate women--a united Harvard-Radcliffeis, frankly, novel...
...generals this week will insist to Congress that they must be funded well enough to fight and win two Gulf War-size conflicts at once. They will point out (surprisingly, one might think, with spending still near cold war levels) that the number of warriors in U.S. fighting forces--Army maneuver battalions, Navy ships and Air Force planes--has dropped nearly half over the past decade. And some surviving units, according to audits earlier this year, are "ghost squads," without a single soldier assigned to them...
...until the last possible moment and then make enough concessions to avert an air strike," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Belgrade has already declared an end to its offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo, and will likely make further commitments to avoid attack. U.N. and NATO sources insist that Milosevic has not yet complied with international demands, but further concessions could leave NATO in a difficult position. Says Dowell, "Skeptics believe that if NATO had really been planning to intervene in Kosovo, it should have done so a long time...
While fraternity officers insist that they recruit "only by word of mouth," first-years report that they have been approached by Sigma Chi members in their dorms. Justin C. Denham '02 says that he was given a Sigma Chi information card by several members who came by his Greenough room last week...
...bleached the scarlet A. When used to bludgeon a political foe, adultery is not a human tragedy but a political one. "Will it hurt his poll numbers?" becomes the question, not how broken and scarred a spouse and children may be. With the press reveling in scandal (although we insist that we are not), even good people make bad excuses, searching for an asterisk to put beside their adultery ("It's old," "I was young," "It's over," "My wife forgave me"). The result is to "define adultery down" (with credit to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who argued six years...