Word: overing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EAST BERLIN--Former Communist Party chief Egon Krenz resigned yesterday as East Germany's president, and a non-Communist took over as interim head of state for the first time in the nation's 40-year history.
The country, whose political makeup is being shaped by the prodemocracy movement on a day-by-day basis, is now run by a 25-member committee of Communists who took over when the Communist leadership resigned Sunday.
Like Dorothy watching the oncoming tornado, I read about the growing debate over the mission of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). I hope that somebody clicks their heels and wakes up before that home, that wonderful place that PBHA has built, is destroyed in the growing storm.
To my surprise, everyone said yes. I realized that Ehrenreich does not have sole intellectual possession over the idea that poverty, homelessness and racism are bad. This bumper-sticker mentality does a disservice to everyone who has ever committed a minute to help another human being. The rest of Harvard...
The sole criterion that PBHA must use to justify their actions is results. How can you effect change? How can you make one life better? The solution is not to be found in a divisive debate over whether PBHA should endorse political candidates.