Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sensible people would sign this agreement. The 81-page peace document on the table in Paris may not satisfy the full ambitions of either side in the Kosovo struggle, but it offers advantages all around. While it doesn't give the Albanian Kosovars the independence they crave, it would afford...
But Milosevic? His delegation came and went each day in Paris demanding pages of impossible changes, then kissed off the plan entirely as a "fake document." In the streets of Belgrade, Serbs reiterated their attachment to Kosovo but secretly believed a last-minute deal would be made to ward off...
He was born in Florence, the son of intensely Europhile parents (his father was a New England doctor, his mother a clinging neurasthenic who couldn't bear the crude culture of her birthplace). The Sargents were not rich, but they moved from one roost to another--Rome, Paris, Nice, Munich...
Whether they were navigating rain-forests in Australia or winding their way down 17th century staircases at Pantheon Sorbonne in Paris, all of the students who studied abroad were affected by their exposure to a very different kind of academic environment.
Beck says instruction in Paris came from a different angle than at Harvard. "[Classes] were very doctrinaire. There was very little reading and tons of discussions and lectures," she says.