Word: rivering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Charles River Run is an intramural event that occurs in the fall and the spring each year for all undergraduates. The first-year run is traditionally held around Halloween, but this is only the second year that organizers have encouraged creative dress...
Wednesday 2:15 a.m. The phone rang. Outside, in the quiet Maryland fall night, the Wye River whispered. Benjamin Netanyahu had finally made it back to his bedroom after negotiating for a full day, the last three hours with President Bill Clinton, who had just helicoptered back to the White House. The night had been a long give-and-take over security issues; a give-and-take that seemed to be moving in the same circles the Israelis and Palestinians had traveled for months, even years. "Hello?" Netanyahu said. "Happy Birthday." It was Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, calling...
...many respects, a quiet gift: the present called the Wye River Memorandum. Its terms are modest. It provides for the return of a parcel of sparsely inhabited land in the West Bank. It firms up the details of the implementation of accords the P.L.O. and Israel had reached in 1993. Far tougher disputes remain, including the future of Jerusalem and the return of Palestinian refugees. According to the original timetable, all these must be settled by next May--when Arafat has threatened to declare a Palestinian state. But last week's accord, fought for and won over nine tumultuous days...
Suppose you started digging a hole on the bank of the Hudson River, the cradle of American 19th century landscape as painted by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church and others. Suppose you kept digging straight down through the center of the earth and came out on the other side. The hole would open up just off Tasmania, the island state of Australia, painted in the 19th century by, among others, John Glover and W.C. Piguenit. There wasn't a single artist in Australia in, say, 1870 who had heard of the Hudson River School. Nor was there one in America...
...former Princeton University president William G. Bowen and former Harvard University president Derek Bok argue in their new book, The Shape of the River, a major justification for making sure that promising minority students can get into the best universities, even if their SAT scores are lower than those of some white applicants, is that "American society needs the high-achieving black graduates who will provide leadership in every walk of life." In other words, to make sure that our future is shaped by all our citizens, not just a few. Slavery has nothing to do with...