Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should hope that in the undergraduate years you should have a chance to goof off, in an academic sense," says Peter B. Machinist '66, head tutor for the Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department. "You know, life is too short. Let's make as much...
Harvard had reached the Round of 16 in each of the last three years, including a near upset of the third seed Georgia Bull-dogs in last year's quarterfinals...
...Haverill resident notified the CPD that he had been approached on Mass. Ave. near Brookline Street by a black male who was about six feet tall and had dread locks. The man pressed a hard object against the victim's stomach and demanded his gold chain. When the victim refused, the suspect struck him several times in the head with a pistol. The suspect then removed the victim's gold necklace and fled. He was later arrested...
...building, near the village of Kosare, was once an isolated Serbian army barrack. Now it is the first outpost of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army as it tries to fight its way into the province. The army has a long way to go. NATO bombing has pushed Serbian armor and artillery back two miles, but ahead of the K.L.A. lies the rolling grassland known to the Serbs as Metohija. The flatlands there are tank territory, and with no armor of their own, the lightly armed rebels cannot take and hold it. Kosare, though, is a strategic high ground...
Intensified bombing inevitably brings intensified "collateral damage," and NATO Friday was investigating Serb reports that 50 refugee civilians were killed and as many wounded after the alliance dropped eight cluster bombs on a village near the Kosovo city of Prizren. Images of civilian casualties function as a kind of counterweight to the refugees' tales of trauma, adding to the pressure for a diplomatic solution. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin heads back to Belgrade next week, this time accompanied by Finland's president, Martti Ahtisaari, who is reportedly acting as an envoy for the Western powers. With talks about talks continuing...