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...absorbed by their pupils as to make it difficult for them to pursue their own studies and research, and a danger was felt of losing our best men if they could not be given a better opportunity for these things." Harvard administrators were worried because "the students [were] more keen, more ready to criticize and discuss"; they were afraid the tutors would be too busy answering their pupils' questions to conduct any productive research...
...leadership, so effective in engineering the current peace accord in Bosnia, has yet to play a significant role in Burundi. Although National Security Adviser Anthony Lake has voiced a keen interest in the region and regularly holds meetings on Burundi with senior Administration officials, and although U.N. envoy Albright visited the country on Jan. 20 to warn against any party's seizing power by force, such efforts have yet to produce noticeable results on the ground. Humanitarian considerations aside, Washington does have cause for concern. In 1994 the U.S. spent more than half a billion dollars to assist the victims...
Friends remember him as a loving man with a keen sense of humor...
...does with his continued existence, the living hero of a sometimes abstract cause. We read Rushdie, though, because in his work larger forces--the forces we imagine to be somehow always operating in this world-- are brought to bear on lives that are rendered exquisitely, fantastically, and with a keen sense for the sublime within the mundane...
...universe. Together, we'll explore them. I also know that the beauty of the arts, the glory of books and the delights of entertainment are what make our time on this planet so magical. TIME's criticism must be sharp, and its disdain for shallowness and degradation keen, because that is the truest way to show how much we care about the quality of our culture...