Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other sources close to the talks between the two schools say the negotiations haven't yet considered the details. Instead, they say Radcliffe insists on negotiating on the big-picture level, while Harvard stubbornly focuses on the fine print. One high-level observer said only in the past few weeks have more specific talks zeroed in on financial and legal stumbling blocks to an agreement. Outstanding issues include the fate of Radcliffe's $200 million endowment and its prime Cambridge real estate...
...postbaccalaureate level, over 3,000 students enrolled in courses--through Radcliffe's Graduate Studies Center--in liberal arts, womenis studies, management, landscape design, ceramics, publishing and career programs...
...Pope's plea didn't change Carnahan's mind on any philosophical level, just on a particular one: On this day, regarding this criminal, he'd make an exception because the Pope was so persuasive. How does that work out? It's Carnahan's prerogative to change his mind, I suppose, but shouldn't he base that change of mind on new legal evidence brought up on appeal or a basic reversal of philosophy regarding capital punishment, not on the admittedly convincing words of the leader of the Catholic Church? Of course, there is always the question of whether...
...Albright, of course, mounted her own campaign for secretary of state from the U.N. post, and the presence at Cabinet level of a respected foreign-policy professional independent of her tutelage may make things a little uncomfortable for the incumbent. "Holbrooke is stepping up to the plate at a time when U.S. foreign policy is under growing criticism for lacking direction," says Dowell. And the U.N. ambassador-nominee isn't known for pulling his punches...
...will be collected. "We are entering a new phase," says TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger, who notes that the last Pathfinder mission was the first in which the surface exploration of Mars was carried out by a moving spacecraft. The plane mission takes "such mobile exploration to a new level," says Kluger. "It will allow the close study of much more land area and surface features...