Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to wander a bit through the halls of academia. "Clueless" is a word that only begins to describe me in selecting a topic area in which I will invest half of my Harvard courses taking. I love literature, art, history and languages. My issue is being uncertain about where I fit in within the departmental structure. Do I take a major I will enjoy, or one that is practical? Should I concentrate in a subject area that is easy for me and in which I am well-grounded, or one with which I will struggle and which...
...Coop buys back books being used for the current semester at up to 50 percent off retail prices, he said. However, the Coop also buys books back according to a wholesale guide whose prices are generally lower, because of uncertain demand in the wholesale market...
BOULDER, Colorado: The uncertain and mistake-prone investigation of JonBenet Ramsey's murder found a focus today, if only a sidelight, with the arrest of two people for illegally providing photographs of the homicide scene to a tabloid. Lawrence Smith, a processor for Photo Craft Laboratories, which develops photos for the Boulder County coroner's office, and Brent Sawyer, a private investigator and former Boulder County deputy sheriff, allegedly handed the photos over to the Globe for a $5,500 pay-off. Smith, 36, who made only $200 for the act that could get him 8 1/2 years in jail...
...weakened Gingrich predicted he would win the Tuesday vote. Even with defections by Leach and New York Representative Michael Forbes, most House Republicans are expected to endorse Gingrich for a second term. TIME's Karen Tumulty reports that while Leach is highly respected in the House, it's uncertain whether he will persuade other GOP representatives to abandon Gingrich. Forbes is the only Republican who has stated flatly that he will vote against Gingrich, though he says some two dozen of his colleagues share his thinking. With Republicans holding a scant 227-207 majority in a vote that usually breaks...
...second year of his exile from Nazi Germany. Max Beckmann holds a bugle, which he has just blown. His eyes don't meet yours; he looks away, listening for an answering note. It's a piercing image of the artist deprived of his context, hoping to connect, uncertain that he can. European man, signaling from a collapsing world...