Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...destruction will ensue, with little risk for the 2,200 U.S. Marines waiting in the Mediterranean for a go-ahead. But that's been Kosovo all along -- it's why the U.S. is willing to risk its troops in the first place -- and it won't look much like progress...
...dead weight of the past lay across him like a toppled statue," a dejected cop reflects blearily, well short of the end of Robert Harris' new thriller. He could be speaking for Russia. Our cop is bone tired, trying to track the lurching progress of Fluke Kelso, an academic who has dug up the diary of Stalin's last days. The failing dictator got a woman pregnant, the papers suggest, and she may have returned to Archangel, her home in the north. Kelso and a TV reporter head up there, followed by the cop, followed by military thugs. What they...
Ragtime seems to hint that as long as wecan all keep our arms open to change and progress,things will be all right. But when one stops toconsider that these words of wisdom are comingfrom (of all places) an enormously successfulBroadway musical, the strength and wisdom of themessage suddenly rings a bit hollow...
...helpful to students' development as adults and as citizens for the College to assume responsibility for seeing to it that students do not feel they need to study on Friday nights? To quote a young professional, featured in The Crimson the following day, on his progress in his career: "Sometimes you just have to dig inside and find the strength to get out of bed in the morning. Mentally it's demanding, and coming from Harvard I knew I could do it." Did Harvard do this fellow a disservice, by not empowering him to feel that he need not work...
...February, and I still haven't figured out what I want to do after graduation. The days are getting warmer; the clock's hands are ticking louder in my ear. But at least I've figured out one thing I don't want to do. That little bit of progress, however slight, was worth a lot of rejection...