Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from their ramshackle trailer, raising hopes that a peaceful end may be near. Robert Scheidt, the group's "captain of the embassy guard," abruptly walked out on the others still holed up in the home of leader Richard McLaren. "I had to get out of there. I couldn't stand it anymore," Scheidt reportedly told a state trooper. Scheidt was released Monday from police custody, where he was being held on a weapons violation, and traded for the couple the Texians had taken hostage Sunday. But while police were buoyed by the surrender, McLaren's increasingly angry neighbors, who voluntarily...
With Cambridge City Council members only discussing technology upgrades in the election process and minor city traffic concerns, the stand-out highlight from Monday night's meeting was perhaps the public speaking segment...
...that when physicians take their patients' suffering seriously--and do all they can to relieve it--the patients respond by getting better faster and staying better longer. Asked why they want to die, most people who seek physician-assisted suicide respond that it's because they can no longer stand the pain. But when their pain is relieved, most would-be suicides suddenly find they are a lot more interested in living...
...produced two songs on World, including the apple-sweet Missing You and the mournful Not Gon' Cry (which was also on the Waiting to Exhale sound track), and Blige's oak-dark voice adds shading to his sometimes colorless work. Several other songs, including Everything, Seven Days and Searching, stand out like pure pop gems--expertly cut, with sparkling vocals...
...Intellectual leadership. There is none. Probably the last time you saw President Neil L. Rudenstine, he was delivering the convocation to the first-years. Someone at this College needs to stand up and remind us why we're here, rather than spend every moment fund-raising. Faculty members need to attend monthly Faculty meetings to become involved in governance. Although Harvard is run by a Corporation, it is a place of learning at heart. That fact, however, often becomes lost in the morass of daily life...