Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elie Wiesel visited the refugee camps in Macedonia last week, a few days before the prospect of peace broke out. Wiesel explicitly refused to compare the Kosovo tragedy to the Holocaust, saying, "I don't believe in drawing analogies." But there can be little doubt that the Clinton Administration, which has repeatedly invoked parallels between Kosovo and the Shoah, had exactly that in mind. As a U.S. embassy spokesman in Macedonia told the New York Times, Americans were losing focus on the reasons for our Balkan mission, and so "you need a person like Wiesel to keep your moral philosophy...
...suppose I tapped into a broad sense of frustration among many students, a general fatigue with Harvard life. Nonetheless, somewhere in that column I predicted that a time would come this year when my Harvard sickness would be replaced by a wave of sadness and nostalgia as the prospect of leaving approached...
Like Harvard, most other universities do not grant tenure easily. But professors Cheah, Masten, and Brian Harper, who left the Harvard English department in 1995, says the other schools offer the prospect of tenure, sometimes at the associate professor level...
After all, life will probably go on after New Year's Eve, and we should be able to enjoy it without the prospect of another millennial celebration in another 1,000 years to keep us going...
Sources told The Crimson that Rudenstine had long wanted to make a financial aid policy change, but Knowles balked at the prospect of spending more money...