Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning, I found myself staring at my first semester grades and feeling relief. No shame. No regrets. I had passed everything, hadn't I? This was Harvard. This was Hard. These were grades without hands. It had been four months. I had learned that College was not a "for instant Happiness add water" formula. And to some degree, thank God, I had my hands back...
...Relief officials say Kosovars in the refugee camps will probably dispatch "pioneer groups" to survey the damage wrought by the war. It is not an encouraging picture. At least half the houses in Kosovo have been razed. There are no viable livestock or crops. Simply feeding the internally displaced Kosovars will require shipments of 1,000 tons of food daily. Because Serbian authorities destroyed most of the ethnic Albanians' personal records, KFOR and the U.N.'s civilian administrators will face the nightmarish task of sorting out those who have legal claims to land and property. The U.S. hopes to organize...
...Such a relief. In a test of wills in which one side had all the weapons but both underestimated the other's staying power, Milosevic cracked first. The chilling spectacle of NATO slamming 20,000 bombs and missiles into Yugoslavia can come to a merciful end. Bill Clinton proves--again--to be the luckiest President alive. At nearly the exact moment that Clinton gathered the Joint Chiefs to confront the unpalatable implications of a ground war to salvage the stalemated air campaign, Milosevic handed him victory...
...still the proper young Englishwoman abroad, but she and Tarzan are naifs in each other's worlds, with resources of strength and feelings still to discover. And with Minnie Driver adroitly mining each nuance of social primness, Jane is the first Disney cartoon heroine to provide her own comic relief...
When NATO bombings began in early April, the Institute of Politics sponsored two panels in two days: Darryl C. Li '99 organized a vigil on the steps of Memorial Church, and the fledgling student group Impact, created to aid developing countries and to offer emergency relief, organized several benefit events...