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...brigades. They would be equipped with artillery and armored vehicles and would move quickly by helicopter to aid and protect peacekeepers in their humanitarian mission of distributing food and supplies. Discussions were held in Paris and London about changing the system under which military commanders must in practice obtain U.N. civilian approval to use force for anything beyond shooting back when under attack. On occasion it has been particularly frustrating to U.N. and NATO officers when they wanted to call in air strikes on the Bosnian Serbs and U.N. officials refused to go along. This time, French and British military...
Students can obtain a set of disks from their school or a commercial service with the images of applications from various colleges, which the students can then fill out, Reed says...
...seem less elitist. As Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 has said, by switching to the new system, "We are levelling the playing field." The obvious implication is that the field wasn't level enough in the first place. Apparently, by requiring applicants to obtain and fill out a Harvard application, the College was imposing what Fitzsimmons and others believe was an unfair hurdle on some applicants. This hurdle, we are told implicitly, smacks of elitism...
...think that his life tells a lot about national history and strength of character and leadership and all the things we should admire and think about as we leave Harvard especially since he did not obtain a higher degree," says First Harvard Marshal Jamie Miller...
...City Council yesterday passed an anti-smoking law that restricts smoking in restaurants and requires tobacco vendors to obtain licenses from the city, capping three months of political wrangling and more than a year of policy negotiations...