Word: languish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what have we learned so far? Millions of people languish in a brutal military dictatorship in Haiti. Thousands more try to flee to the U.S. every day. President Clinton linked himself to helping the Haitian boat people during the campaign, although many Americans are opposed to allowing those people in the country. There is no place else that will accept them besides the U.S. That leaves two questions left: what ought to be done and what will be done...
...Government's legitimacy has broken down. The governed languish at the mercy of their leaders' kindness." Legal norms are a mere trifle to be pushed aside by an arrogant elite. Is Dartboard's intrepid correspondent sending back a frenzied dispatch from Rwanda? No, the crisis situation is centered in Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard, where the Undergraduate Council has unilaterally disqualified four out of five ballot questions .His Eminence, President and Grand Poobah Carey Gabay '94, Master of Peons and Terror of 12 Houses, through the unbounded benevolence of his magnanimous heart, has allowed a single question to remain, while chastising...
...every garret somewhere, young writers languish, pursuing the muse. It's a funny business, writing. Some of us write best while languidly recovering from the excesses of the weekend, secure in the knowledge that with the rented dog returned, epiphanies will be abundant...
This handsomely crafted studio production, unaccountably left to languish for a year in the Warner Bros. vault, comes from an unlikely auteur: poverty- row director Abel Ferrara, whose earlier work, from Ms. 45 to Bad Lieutenant, is a gallery of Grunge Guignol. Somehow, flanked by five scripters (including his regular collaborator Nicholas St. John), he managed to stoke his tale with the eerie subtlety of the best old B movies...
Charlotte is an alumna on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, and Peter is an alumnus of the Society of Fellows. We have been "friends" of the Semitic Museum for many years. We will be very sorry to see it languish as part of the Harvard scene. It was a place where diverse groups could mix in appreciation of thoughtful exhibits like the rediscovered Bonfils photographs of 19th century Jerusalem and the remaining artifacts of the Danzig synagogue...