Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That prospect clearly made our briefers uneasy. There was no mention of the U.N. on their many charts, so my fellow visitor, Samuel Lewis, kept raising the issue. A former American ambassador to Israel, he is now president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally funded foundation and think tank devoted to conflict resolution. At his probing, our hosts were willing to allow that U.S. military units might participate in a multinational peacekeeping mission under a non-American general in a U.N. blue beret. But their lack of enthusiasm for the idea was palpable...
With a picture of John F. Kennedy '40 on the wall and a program for universal health insurance in hand,The American Prospect seems to comfortable in its new home at the hub of American liberalism...
Many members of the former staff of the old magazine reunited to create The American Prospect in spring 1990 under the direction Kennedy School Lecturer in Public Policy Robert B. Reich, journalist Robert Kuttner and Princeton University Professor of EconomicsPaul Starr...
Kuttner, formerly of The New Republic,said the Prospect targets a seriousreadership and has solicited stories from some ofthe country's foremost liberal scholars, includingProfessor of Economics John Kenneth Galbraith,historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. andsociologist William Julius Wilson...
Though not affiliated with Harvard officially.The Prospect had links to the Universitythrough the involvement of both faculty andstudents in its production...