Word: orders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East Timor. Others argued that regional commanders intended to defy Jakarta and reduce East Timor to a state of anarchy to cancel out entirely the result of the referendum. "The military feels insulted," says Harry Tjan Silalahi, a think-tank director in Jakarta. "Some may want to restore order, but those in the field have a much different purpose." In all likelihood, each of these explanations added a sliver of sick truth to East Timor's fate...
...backfired. When the U.N. gave the order to evacuate the compound on Wednesday, no one was willing to leave. Around us refugees became aware that we might be going. There was no question of taking them with us. "You are abandoning us again," one East Timorese friend said to me, as he hugged his family and cried. The anger and frustration became extreme. As journalists we decided that we wouldn't leave. "If we stay here, they will kill us, but if we leave, they will kill the refugees," said one of my colleagues. Among U.N. staff who had been...
Administration officials at several schools have recently begun to question to methodology used by U.S. News & World Report and other systems that rank colleges, accusing the magazine of shuffling the rankings each year in order to sell more magazines...
Jonathan L. Miller '67 has been president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Central New York for a year. He says he's trying to liven up his once-sleepy club in order to provide more networking opportunities...
Browning decided to leave the soccer team in order to concentrate on crew, where she captains the NCAA-qualifying first heavyweight boat. Her departure left a huge gap in the Harvard defense, which shone last year, allowing just five goals in eight Ivy League contests...