Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SafeStreets volunteers are a diverse group--only one similarity, in fact, brings them together late at night: they have all taken an active role in campus safety...
Cornelia Tietke '91 is an American History and Literature concentrator whose main role in the group is to recruit people from Dunster House. She says she is frustrated with the limited response that the service has received. "I've done two shifts so far and have been kind of disappointed with the response," Tietke says. "I think the people who know about it and use it regularly appreciate it, but we definitely need more publicity...
...course, a lieutenant who is both green and ambitious and therefore more dangerous to friend than foe. Such characters have been AWOL from most movies about Viet Nam, and 84 Charlie MoPic would have curiosity value if it only brought them back and restored them to their chief role: demonstrating the masculine need for bonding...
...Lebanon's real trouble goes back to a 1943 unwritten "national pact" giving a dominant share of power to the Christian community. It has battled to hold on against the Muslims, who today are in the majority and are demanding a larger role in governing the country. Now, without even a figurehead President to sustain the fading dream of national reconciliation, and with the big guns drowning out all appeals for peace, Lebanon's chaos may have reached the point of no return...
...cavernous Senate Caucus Room two years ago, a misty-eyed Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North dazzled millions of TV viewers. Imposing in his sharply creased uniform and Viet Nam combat ribbons, he confidently minimized his role in the Iran-contra scandal, insisting, "I was authorized to do everything that I did." Last week in a Washington federal courtroom, a more subdued North, now a blue-suited civilian with graying hair, took the witness stand and tried to convince twelve jurors that he had been merely a gofer, dutifully carrying out policy set higher in the White House. Surprisingly, the Government...