Word: iron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NATO has plenty more devilish details to iron out if the settlement plan is to work. The two-page, 10-point agreement left key issues unresolved, including sensitive questions of command. For weeks Moscow not only insisted on participating in the peace force but tried to place its troops in charge of Kosovo's northern quadrant, where many Serbian holy sites lie. Washington refused for fear that would effectively partition the province. Now the diplomats are wrangling over just what role the Russian troops will play and who will command them. Russia's proud military men oppose the settlement, making...
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67, who carried the deal to completion, and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, who worked with Dunn to iron out one of the deal's most prickly issues, were also there. Stalwart Radcliffe trustee Susan S. Wallach '68 sent her greetings from New York...
...most of this year'sseniors were adjusting to Expository Writing anddorm life, several hundred students flooded theYard to protest the appointment of Judith H. Kiddas the assistant dean of public service. Campuspublic service leaders complained that theadministration had snubbed them in choosing Kiddover their objections and in wielding an iron fistover their programs...
...only person to lament the absence of our swaggering friend--"the scruffy-looking nerfherder," if you will. Where are the big three--Luke, Leia and Han Solo--now? Leia (Carrie Fisher) still acts, although not usually in leading roles. She writes, both novels and screenplays. (I guess that iron bikini in Return of the Jedi was a little much.) Luke (Mark Hamill) works on comic books. He can also currently be seen in a series of commercials for Big Bear, the supermarket chain. (He uses the Force to move his shopping bags out of the store. Hmm.) And Han Solo...
...Bucharest, Romania, the son of a printer (hence an early fascination with type), he studied architecture in Milan in the early '30s. He never designed a real building, but he was to develop an exquisite sense of architectural convention, of stylistic parody, that shows in the dream skyscrapers and iron galleries of his later cityscapes. In 1941 he made his way to Lisbon and from there to the U.S. With difficulty, and with a "slightly fake" passport that he doctored with his own rubber stamp, he reached Miami in 1942, and his definitive expatriation began...