Word: nested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...operation started out looking easy and humane. But once again U.S. troops found themselves in a hornet's nest...
Given recent history, that would be welcome, albeit surprising, news. In 1992, the endowment returned a disappointing 11.8 percent, lagging behind 71 percent of the nation's colleges and universities. And in 1991, Harvard's nest egg barely grew...
Given recent history, that would be welcome, albeit surprising, news. In 1992, the endowment returned a disappointing 11.8 percent, lagging behind 71 percent of the nation's colleges and universities. And in 1991, Harvard's nest egg barely grew...
Given recent history, that would be welcome, albeit surprising, news. In 1992, the endowment returned a disappointing 11.8 percent, lagging behind 71 percent of the nation's colleges and universities. And in 1991, Harvard's nest egg barely grew...
...picture often has the flashy moves of a chess patzer. Phone books are smashed and chessmen trashed. Josh plays catch in a sepulchral chess club, inhabited by a veritable cuckoo's nest of chess nuts. The movie also distorts the chess education of this bantam Rocky. It has Josh learning almost equally from Pandolfini (Ben Kingsley) and a kindly street hustler (Laurence Fishburne). In fact, Pandolfini was the boy's main teacher. Kingsley does have a charismatic gravity and the carriage of -- Fred Waitzkin's phrase -- "a ruined aristocrat." In portraying a teacher whom Josh refers to as "a great...