Word: skis
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CROATS LIVING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA HAD accepted it willingly. So had Muslims, though with reservations. What was needed for the nine-point plan to offer even a slim chance of peace to a country wracked by war was approval by Bosnian Serbs. That happened Wednesday at the ski resort of Pale, 10 miles east of the besieged capital of Sarajevo, where a parliament representing Bosnia's Serbs approved the plan by a comfortable margin. Under the plan, drafted in Geneva earlier this month, the country would be divided into 10 provinces largely drawn up on ethnic lines. Bosnia would...
Fifteen years have passed since the Blizzard of '78, when students used the stone slabs flanking Widener as ski jumps and food service workers remained snowbound in the Union for three days; when the snow was so deep that even the ghosts were driven from the Yard...
...soon as I read that an alumnus had donated a Colorado ski resort to the University, I knew there would be trouble. I was right. Suddenly there are students declaring that Harvard should not accept the gift, or should at least restrict its use by Harvard organizations. Surely this is a serious case of misperceiving reality...
...ROTC debate has already overemphasized Harvard's power to change government policy. But whereas ROTC is a government controlled entity, this (or any other) Colorado ski resort is a privately-owned business. It had nothing to do with the Colorado amendment passed in November, and to not accept it as the generous gift it is would not only have the same effect as pitting in the ocean, it would, in the long term, be imprudent...
...ski resort will remain under the managementof Whipple V. Jones '32 and continue to be asource of revenue for the alumnus. Upon his death,the University will assume full ownership of thefacility...