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President Clinton campaigned in 1992 promising to assert American leadership in the world's flailing efforts to stem the violence in Bosnia. For almost three years those words amounted to little more than empty gestures and broken promises...
Still, it is useful for nonetymologists to learn that the F word may stem from the Germanic languages (for example, the Middle Dutch fokken, "to thrust, copulate with"); that the word found its way into print as early as the 1550s; and that it was James Joyce, Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence who first thrust it, as it were, into modern literature...
President Rudenstine addresses serious issues only in the closing paragraphs of his letter. There he discusses the University's efforts to stem its operating deficit, outlines his efforts to defend educational spending in Washington and reiterates Harvard's commitment to diversifying its students and faculty...
Some of the players worry that the loss may, in part, stem from complacency on the part of the Crimson...
Hyman also points out that faculty felt that establishing a separate MBB concentration was "premature." According to Hyman, the faculty would first like to get a better gauge of student interest, raise funds for infrastructure, and further deal with difficulties that stem from interdisciplinary thinking and research...