Word: metting
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...many believe the Core has not completely met its broad educational aims. A frequent target for criticism is the Core's science content. In an otherwise rosy accreditation review last year, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges found Harvard's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) superficial and criticized the absence of math in the Core...
...Then he met Bruce Coles...
...last time the Central American governments coordinated a peace negotiation was in 1987 in Guatemala, when both the Reagan Administration and the Democratic Speaker of the House were concocting their own plans for the region. The regional agreement, known as the Arias Plan, was met with distrust and discouragement from the Republicans...
Nonetheless, the diplomatic flurry had other modest symbolic achievements: Arens met with President Hosni Mubarak, marking the first time since 1982 that an Egyptian leader has been willing to talk with a member of Israel's right- wing Likud bloc. That very act seemed to signal some thaw in the "cold peace" that prevails between the two countries. Shevardnadze's revival of the international-conference proposal skillfully shored up the Arab moderates who have long advocated it, and his presence in Cairo, the first visit by a Soviet Foreign Minister since 1975, invigorated long-dormant Soviet influence in Egypt...
...Wednesday some 200 members of the National Writers Union demonstrated in front of the Iranian mission to the United Nations. And in New York City's SoHo district, 21 American writers, including Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, met to exchange brave words and read passages from the Rushdie novel. Christopher Hitchens, a columnist for the Nation, received the loudest response when he said, "Until the threat of murder by contract is lifted, all authors should declare themselves as coconspirators. It is time for all of us to don the yellow star and end the hateful isolation...