Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already built McArthur Hall, a large brick building looking onto the Charles toward Cambridge, to house students in the Business School's executive education program. Construction has begun on the new student center, which will house dining and social facilities and perhaps a post office, a game room, a pub, student club offices, University Health Services, a Coop and an auditorium...
Yesterday Indonesian President B.J. Habibie said he would allow United Nations peacekeeping forces to enter East Timor, the Indonesian province that has been engulfed in chaos since voting overwhelmingly for independence in an Aug. 30 referendum. Habibie's announcement, in a nationally televised address, is a crucial step toward peace in East Timor and a welcome reversal of Indonesia's previous opposition to foreign intervention. What is most important now is that the UN and the international community quickly take Habibie up on his offer...
Some people are worried about the trend toward making people more alike--taller, thinner, smarter. Maybe it's best for society as a whole to include those with a range of needs and talents and predispositions, warts and all. "As someone who morally values diversity," says ethicist Elizabeth Bounds of Emory University's Candler School of Theology, "I find this frightening. We run the risk of shaping a much more homogeneous community around certain dominant values, a far more engineered community." What sort of lottery would decide who is to leap ahead, who is to be held back...
Rock's gift is this: he can make hard truths sound funny. It's an invaluable talent in a disinformation age in which it has become more and more difficult to talk about things as they actually are. There's a near constant rush toward metaphorization, toward transmuting events into mediagenic terms. Oral sex isn't about sex, some pundit or other tells us, it's about honesty. Snorting coke isn't about drugs, it's about the media. Shooting up your high school class isn't about gun control, it's about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rock cuts through...
...talks in Berlin that Pyongyang would suspend missile tests in exchange for Washington's moving to ease economic sanctions on the impoverished communist state. Thus far, North Korea has agreed only to refrain from firing another missile while talks last, but observers believe it?s the first step toward a comprehensive agreement to end the missile program in exchange for economic assistance. And extortion may have actually been the objective of North Korea?s missile rattling. "They keep cranking up their threat as high as it can go and we keep paying, so why shouldn?t they?" says TIME Pentagon...