Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reveals Harvard's priorities--priorities that reflect the modern academic environment. Harvard requires its students to take courses in foreign language and foreign cultures--both worthy requirements-but fails to require any study of the United States. It is entirely possible to acquire a Harvard degree without giving a moment's study to America. This sort of purposeful exclusion of American studies is duplicated at universities across the country...
...make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version of a similar unit. "Everybody is in market-development mode at the moment,'' says Dilip Mistry, Windows CE manager for Microsoft's British subsidiary. "I don't think anybody is making money in this yet. It's all about investing to see what happens going forward...
...moment, Harvard investors plan to ridethe roller coaster and focus on the University'slong-term financial situation...
Anyone who claims to actually remember what Mandela said is probably lying. What was truly moving was not his speech or even his voice, but the physical moment of his arrival on the dais. We were asked to rise, and suddenly, we heard the sounds of African drums reverberating through the Yard. As we caught sight of him, a cheer swept across the crowd like a rush of wind, as if we were standing at the coronation of an ancient king...
...difference was that during these speeches, Jiang wasn't there. In fact, when he finally did appear, his arrival seemed to take everyone by surprise, including the professor whose speech he interrupted. What I mostly remember of the moment Jiang appeared on stage at Sanders was the instantaneous silence. It was as astonishing as the suddenness of the drumbeats that greeted Mandela, if not more so. After a hour of explanations from world-renowned professors, these experts, face-to-face with the real thing, suddenly became speechless, and so did everyone else...