Word: moments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side had all the weapons but both underestimated the other's staying power, Milosevic cracked first. The chilling spectacle of NATO slamming 20,000 bombs and missiles into Yugoslavia can come to a merciful end. Bill Clinton proves--again--to be the luckiest President alive. At nearly the exact moment that Clinton gathered the Joint Chiefs to confront the unpalatable implications of a ground war to salvage the stalemated air campaign, Milosevic handed him victory...
...ambiguities over Kosovo's political structures are especially ripe for the sort of chiseling Milosevic does so well. But for the moment, the time had come to cut his losses. It had been easy to ride out the first 30 days of air strikes, when bad weather and alliance timidity limited the damage Serbia suffered. But "he was feeling the pain" in the second month, says a U.S. intelligence officer, as NATO racked up 350 attack sorties every 24 hours. Bombs and missiles had blitzed much of Serbia's heavy industry, energy sector and transport network. Citizen morale crumbled under...
...historical moment when the meaning and functions of the nation-state are undergoing profound transformation, when capital can move freely, but people cannot, an especially important set of questions for lesbian and gay studies is emerging around the relationship between sexuality and citizenship. How is sexuality being shaped and reshaped through migrations? What are the sexual politics of national belonging? What are the national (and transnational) politics of sexual dissidence?" Assistant Professor of English
Every once in a while, Harvard fields an athletic team that excels on the national level. Sometimes that team is special because it overcame seemingly insurmountable odds with sheer will and determination. But sometimes a team is special not because of one spectacular moment but because it has consistently dominated its competition for the entire season--a team so far ahead of the pack that it seems almost surreal...
Bush's bid for the Undergraduate Council presidency his junior year also increased his name recognition on campus. Bush, who served on the Undergraduate Council for one year, says he decided to jump into the election on the spur of the moment because he was "just sick of the way things were being...