Word: lande
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Class is rarely openly discussed, but has a profound effect on academics, extracurricular and social life. For some, Harvard is the great equalizer. For others, it's a fairy-tale land that distorts the inequalities of American society...
Nasrallah: We will take revenge on the Israeli armed forces. They were responsible for killing our people in Qana, and they occupy our land...
...January, senator Charles Robb, the Virginia Democrat, was sitting on Air Force One sipping soda with several congressional colleagues. They were flying to Bosnia with President Clinton, and the conversation turned to land mines. Robb related an experience he had as a Marine in Vietnam. His unit was escorting supply convoys passing through Viet Cong-held territory, and the mission included searching for mines by poking bayonets into any disturbed soil. One afternoon, an engineer several yards in front of Robb struck a detonator with his bayonet. "He was literally vaporized right in front of my eyes," Robb remembered...
...perfectly content with my concentration. Good literature is good literature, no matter who writes it. And I'm studying some great stuff. Do I fear that by supporting ethnic studies, I am advocating the advent of a waste-land of academic vapidity, racial separatism and cultural malaise...
...Land mines could go the way of mustard gas--at least for U.S. forces--starting in 1999 if a new, highly restrictive policy on the buried bombs is endorsed as expected this week by the Pentagon's regional commanders. The move has been spurred by a worldwide humanitarian campaign for a global ban on such weapons, which kill or injure 500 people a week, including many children. A U.S. ban seems certain to be enacted, though opponents are still arguing over details. Possible exceptions to any blanket prohibition on American use of mines include their deployment in the Korean Demilitarized...