Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concentrators and tutors will learn this week that the deadline has been pushed back a week to March 27, the day before spring break. This is the traditional deadline, says law student an former Gov concentrator Alan Khazei '85 because "the idea is, you hand in your thesis, you collapse, you go off on spring break...
Nope. "My first day in Viet Nam," Stone says, "I realized, like Chris in Platoon, that I'd made a terrible mistake. It was on-the-job training: Here's your machete, kid; you cut point. You learn if you can, and if not you're dead. Nobody was motivated, except to get out. Survival was the key. It wasn't very romantic." Each of the three combat units he served in was divided into antagonistic groups, as in the film: "On one side were the lifers, the juicers ((heavy drinkers)) and the moron white element. Guys like Sergeant Barnes...
...Robert Gates he suspected a diversion of Iran arms profits to the contras. Six days later they discussed the matter with Casey. On Oct. 9, Casey and Gates confronted North. The NSC aide denied there was any contra connection. This scenario contradicts Casey's claim that he did not learn of money being diverted to the rebels until just before Attorney General Edwin Meese announced it to the public on Nov. 25. Last week the CIA released a statement reiterating the director's earlier contention that he was informed only of "tenuous speculation" about the contra funding. Casey is recovering...
...harness their rock power. Brett Bravo, 54, who was raised a strict Methodist in Texas, left organized religion in l975 to follow her "evolutionary spiritual path" to Solana Beach, Calif., where she conducts weekly seminars on how to program crystals. In a $45 one-day session, participants learn to cure ailments, erase negativity and recharge energy stores. "The way the stones heal," claims Bravo, "is by man's electrical field combining with the crystal's electromagnetic field. This affects the cells of the body." She also provides a 28-day ritual of positive thinking with each crystal. "With topaz...
...A.N.C. has advocated in recent years. Instead, he embarked on a more moderate approach, pledging that "civilians, both black and white," would not be harmed by A.N.C. fighters. He called on whites to "come together in a massive democratic coalition" with blacks. Declared Tambo: "Our white compatriots have to learn the truth, that it is not democracy that threatens their future. Rather, it is racist tyranny...