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...Yale undertook some retributive action last week as its deadlines for grade submission passed. The university had denied spring teaching positions to the grade strikers, but now it may reconsider...
...This principle of inviolate borders underscores how much the U.N. was shaped by lessons of the 1930s: Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia, Japan's invasion of China and Hitler's devouring the appetizer of the Sudetenland. As generals tend to fight the last war, so the U.N.'s founders undertook to preserve the last peace...
...area around Banja Luka, the main city in Serb-held Bosnia, Serbs forced thousands of Muslims from their homes, separating men ages 16 to 60 from their families and sending them to their possible death. As in the past, Zeljko Raznatovic, a commander who is known as Arkan, undertook much of the brutality. According to Kris Janowski, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Arkan and his men were brought to the region because they were not part of the communities. "The local Serbs often develop quite a friendly relationship with their neighbors," Janowski said. "Bringing in people...
...technology investments it undertook did well. A private equity investment of about $20 million in Softkey, a technology firm, was sold for more than $100 million during the year, the source said...
...left for Paris the next year. Thus, although he liked to posture as a dashing Tidewater cavalier, Whistler never became an officer, let alone saw action in the Civil War. This insufficiency troubled him and accounts for a curious adventure he undertook in 1866, when he sailed from France to Chile--a long and grueling trip across the Atlantic and around the Horn--to be present at a Spanish naval blockade of the port of Valparaiso. By the end of the year he was back in Paris, with a few crepuscular seascapes but no honorable scars to show...