Word: set
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kosovo's Albanians set out from their refuges last week with such high hopes but arrived to such horror. The impact of those pit graves and decomposing bodies, incinerated villages and pulverized cities will haunt the Balkans for generations. In Washington the White House is busy searching for a leader to replace Milosevic if the defeated strongman falls. Clinton is expected this week to meet Milo Djukanovic, Montenegro's useful pro-Western President, and U.S. diplomats met secretly last week with Belgrade political opponents in hopes of promoting a homegrown challenge to Milosevic. Washington refuses to cooperate with Yugoslavia...
...reality, though, is that the new-media and high-technology workplace today often more closely resembles a piecework-industry sweatshop than a pristine NASA laboratory. New Internet businesses, financially strapped and compelled to set up shop on pricey real estate in Manhattan's Silicon Alley or California's Silicon Valley, have to scrimp on the office space, using converted industrial lofts crammed with desks, T-1 lines and terminals. During the pre-initial public offering phase of a start-up, precious capital must be allocated to marketing and sales rather than rent and salaries, which contribute only to the burn...
...need these people, desperately need them, because you can't be simply the Best any longer. With them at the Kong at 2:30 a.m., at the Grille on a Friday night or over a neglected math problem set in your room, you'll begin figuring out where you really fit in a three-dimensional world. It will be amazing to see l,600 merit scholars fan out, like light through a prism, into a class with jocks, nerds, class clowns, artists and every other teenage demographic. Some poor souls will even join the Harvard Lampoon; a semi-secret Sorrento...
...wrote a "My First Year" piece directed at last year's first-year class. I thought I had it all figured out: understand that in all likelihood you're not going to be the superstar at Harvard that you were in high school, and you'll be all set--a fruitful and satisfying life awaits. However, in truth, I still battle with this every day I'm at school (and especially on the days that I receive mid-term and final grades). So, this past spring, as one of my best friends talked me down from jumping...
...parties, that is to form lasting relationships. Don't go looking to meet friends, or God forbid a significant other. If you're looking for a hook-up, you're in the right place, but shoot for anything else and parties are bound to disappoint. You may want to set a rule of thumb for yourself: Don't go to parties where you don't know the hosts. Of course you can be flexible, but if you know the hosts chances are you will know someone else, and you will at least have someone to talk to and can avoid...