Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such a victory would mark an unconventional, if modest, political comeback for Brown, now 60. In 1995, after three failed bids for the presidency, he sold his mansion in San Francisco's posh Pacific Heights and moved across the bay to Oakland's gritty waterfront. There he started up We...
Second was a focus on internationalization, another trend which Rudenstine has repeatedly sketched in broad strokes but left without a detailed vision. It likely means an extension of current projects like the planned Asia Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong and the on-campus focus on international studies soon to...
Rudenstine wrote in an introduction to the first issue of the Asia Pacific Review last winter, "Students and scholars from East Asia have been coming to Harvard for more than a century, and never has the relationship been closer than it is today."
Located centrally in Asia, the Hong Kong officewill serve the entire Asia-Pacific region.
Even in such distinguished company, Lisbon's Oceans Pavilion stands out. Its titanic 1.2 million-gal. central tank and four side tanks (holding an additional 300,000 gal.) are home to 8,000 specimens of 250 species, arranged so that predators and prey seem to swim side by side. Visitors...