Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aggression. So it is no surprise that the organizers of the international conference on the Balkans that is scheduled to meet in London this week staunchly deny they will countenance a rerun. Just the opposite, says British Deputy Foreign Secretary Douglas Hogg: the conferees will "make it absolutely plain to the Serbs that they are not going to be allowed to retain the land they have grabbed" in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The conference will consider tightening sanctions against the Bosnian Serbs' patrons in Belgrade and may approve a plan to assign 10,000 fresh United Nations troops to escort relief convoys...
Catalan Gothic is austere, primal, bony architecture, nowhere near as decorated as French or English. Its grandeur is all in the structure, and no building displays this more piercingly than the 14th century church of Santa Maria del Mar, the "workers' church" of Barcelona, with its sublimely plain interior, a solemn Sequoia grove of stone hewed from the quarries of Montjuic, the mountain that guards the port...
Killing policemen is a good thing -- that is the plain meaning of the words, and no "larger understanding" of black culture, the rage of the streets or anything else can explain it away. This is not Ella Fitzgerald telling a story in song. As in much of today's popular music, the line between performer and performance is purposely blurred. These are political sermonettes clearly intended to endorse the sentiments being expressed. Tracy Marrow (Ice-T) himself has said, "I scared the police, and they need to be scared." That seems clear...
...year old Jamaica Plain resident who says he was brutalized by Harvard University Police last month has taken his case to the streets, passing out over 5300 leaflets detailing his grievances...
Harvard workers most certainly deserve every benefit they are negotiating for. It is due recompense for loyalty, devotion and just plain hard work. Harvard workers anonymously ensure that the University's pre-eminent status remains intact, and its prestige and wealth flourish. They also deserve to deal with the President of the University in person, without delay. Lucinda Ann Scanlon