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...have a secret. Before Harvard, I never had the courage to hurtle my true confessions at a reader. But my Kennedy School education has fortified me with this new word which forever onward will become my sword and shield as I strive to meet the challenges of the post-Harvard world: PARADIME. Did I spell it right? If not, it's only because my new word has not been broken in. In fact, I (gulp) never had a paradigm of my own. That's right--I was a man without a paradigm, suspended in a twilight zone of disbelief--until...
...though fundraisers emphasize that everyone attempts to shield Rudenstine from most of the day-to-day fundraising duties, large donors expect to have the deal finalized with the president. Rudenstine has been known to stay up all night writing thank-you notes to donors by hand, for example...
...central mission--to prevent aggression--has been so utterly warped in the Balkans that the U.N. mission there now acts as a shield for aggressors to continue their killing. An organization created in the wake of a horrendous genocide is now abetting...
While the Clinton administration openly sympathizes with the Bosnian Muslims, it has repeatedly shield away from taking prudent and honorable steps to support them against Serbian rebels. Rather than assuming its leadership role in NATO, the administration has justified its own cowardice by the intransigence of its European allies...
Throughout China, Cuba, Russia and much of Eastern Europe, people from shopkeepers to schoolteachers stash greenbacks as a shield against hyperinflation and the sudden devaluation of their own currencies. In some cases, it is also the only way to do business. Taxi drivers in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, prefer their fares in dollars, as do some restaurants in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Says a Russian importer of IBM computers, pulling a thick wad of $50 bills from his pocket: "What do I need rubles for? I want real money...