Word: ushered
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...October 1994, the U.S. and North Korea concluded a tense, two-year standoff with an accord that seemed to usher in a new era of cooperation in North Asia. By signing a deal called the Agreed Framework, the U.S. promised to provide impoverished North Korea with energy assistance. In exchange, the North agreed to halt production of plutonium that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Countries in the Stalinist state's menacing nuclear shadow breathed easier as then President Bill Clinton congratulated his envoys for coaxing the backward dictatorship toward joining the global community. On the day the agreement...
...Litzky, who now lives in Sun City, Ariz., working as an usher at the Diamondbacks' stadium felt like a homecoming--one he very much needed after his wife died six years ago. "It kept me so busy there wasn't a chance to think," says Litzky, who also helps coordinate 500 volunteers at the sports complex in Peoria, Ariz., where the Mariners and the San Diego Padres hold spring training...
...Still, while the problems of democracy and security in Africa may once have been contemplated from a polite distance, President Bush's trip may usher in an era in which the twin U.S. concerns of energy and terrorism increasingly compel Washington to embrace some of Africa's problems...
With the FAS curricular review, he can poke and prod, but ultimately a Faculty vote will usher in whatever change is to occur. Summers will have to go to the mat to wrestle out of wealthy donors the millions necessary to fund major new labs and cross-school collaborations, but the Faculty will need to be behind the initiatives for them to succeed. And while consultants, professional planners and administrators will design the ideal campus, the transition from blueprint to reality will require at least the grudging consent of the faculties that will call it home...
Thank you to Nicole B. Usher ’03 for pointing out an enormous disappointment felt by many Seniors and their parents (Comment, “Ticketing the Senior Class,” May 21). I have two Harvard undergraduates and actually spend over $70,000 per year sending the two to Harvard. We ask for not one cent of help and our graduating senior had no tickets for any event thus far. Very disappointing...