Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ings and queens who ride in large, open carriages with stern livery boys at their side, stone buildings covered in soot, ground beef served spicy and raw in sidewalk cafes, insane drivers who aim directly for tourists. This is Europe--at least as seen from the perspective of much of America, not excluding our cloistered campus. Many Harvard students, who usually swim valiantly upstream against the flow of conventional ideas, allow themselves to float comfortably along on the current of public opinion when it comes to the Old World...
...second-chance African revolution. What every country striding forward shows is that progress comes first to those who adopt the principles and practices of capitalist democracy. There are some common lessons here that any African nation can learn: free-market economics works, including privatization, entrepreneurship and often the stern measures of wholesale reform to jump-start failed economies. So does agricultural self-sufficiency, starting from the bottom up. And decentralization, spreading development outside urban capitals to the vast rural majority. And women's empowerment...
What also sets Eritrea apart is the dedication to national purpose of its leader. President Issaias is one of Africa's new men, hammered into leadership by the rigors of long war. Though soft-spoken, he is stern, almost paternalistic in his confidence that he knows best. His government is firmly controlled, even secretive, yet people seem to admire him. He is sharp and decisive, says what is on his mind, accepts diplomatic criticism when he considers it right and rejects it when he doesn't. "What you hear is what you get," says O'Neill. "He doesn't dicker...
...phenomenon intrigued McClintock, and she and co-researcher Kathleen Stern recently revisited it, hoping not just to observe ovulation but manipulate it. They recruited a group of 29 women and asked nine of them to wear pads under their arms for several hours, either before ovulation or just after. When the pads were wiped under the noses of the other women, the results were remarkable. Pre-ovulation pads shortened menstrual cycles by as many as 14 days in 68% of the women. When exposed to ovulation-phase pads, a different 68% experienced cycles that were as many as 12 days...
...rich tone and a masterly feel for interpretation that allows his performances to breathe with an almost jazzlike spontaneity. "Yo-Yo has an ease of playing that is given to very few. It is a kind of mastery that gives one the greatest possible freedom," says violinist Isaac Stern, a onetime mentor of Ma's. "He is probably the most perfect instrumentalist I have ever seen," says Ax. "I spend hours and hours practicing every day. Yo-Yo can afford to sleep late and have lunch, and he still plays much more perfectly than...