Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the name of Finnish President Ahtisaari as Chernomyrdin's likely partner. And as everyone stood to leave, Gore told Chernomyrdin that there was something else he should have. He handed the Russian a manila envelope containing a reminder of the most fundamental reason why both countries needed to succeed--a draft of a yet unreleased State Department report, prepared overnight, laying out the extent of the ethnic cleansing that was taking place in Kosovo...
...lived in such a time. After he defied the governing class of San Francisco in 1977 to become a member of its board of supervisors, many people--straight and gay--had to adjust to a new reality he embodied: that a gay person could live an honest life and succeed. That laborious adjustment plods on--now forward, now backward--though with every gay character to emerge on TV and with every presidential speech to a gay group, its eventual outcome favoring equality seems clear...
...some job or make some leap through the connections and thinking that you gained here. But maybe it will be the moment when something that is distinctly not Harvard--even though you might have found that something here--becomes more important to you than Harvard. And when you succeed in taking what Harvard has given you, whether it was something you searched for or something you stumbled upon--you will manage to make it larger than Harvard, to make it into life. And maybe then you will be able to pass through Harvard Yard without too much nostalgia...
While this past semester's council did not succeed in changing life at Harvard, it hosted several events that will probably set a precedent for future years. In particular, this year's Springfest drew crowds to the Mac Quad for an entire Saturday afternoon while the Violent Femmes jammed, and council members and their constituents bounced down a three-story "Titanic" slide...
...little bit of a naive high schooler there, and I think over the years it's been less of it just me wanting to succeed in music but me actually loving the music that I'm playing," Lin adds...