Word: prospect
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...problems that triggered the famine of 1992 and the U.S.-led military intervention persist. Warlords are in the ascendant, bedeviling efforts by the U.N. and Somalis to negotiate a political solution. Violent attacks on aid workers have increased, threatening to reverse any progress made in the past year. The prospect of renewed anarchy has brought many Somalis to the brink of despair. "It will never be stopped," laments Mohammed Haji Yusur, a doctor in the port of Kismayu, where clan warfare has once again filled his hospital with the dead and wounded. "It will never...
Washington -- It has been widely speculated that retiring Senate majority leader George Mitchell would like a Supreme Court seat, and insiders say the White House is now actively exploring that prospect. A source close to Mitchell says that Chief Justice would be his ideal job: "It's very hard to be driving consensus in the Senate, and then find yourself sitting second fiddle on the court...
Students said they would rather sepnd a "carefree" vacation than one dominated by the prospect of exams...
...Higginbotham does not think her Harvard job will be easy. In fact, she says she is worried about the prospect of Having to split time between two different schools...
...return from the West coast, Harvard will take on the rest of the Ivy League and keep its fingers crossed on May's tournament prospect...