Word: visite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Overseers typically "visit" Harvard in committees charged with reviewing specific programs or aspects of Harvard's schools...
Overseers typically "visit" Harvard in committees charged with reviewing specific programs or aspects of Harvard's schools...
Showing slides and passing around pictures of his visit, Pryor said that the biggest problems facing the refugee camps at the moment are a lack of water and the potential for disease due to poor sanitation...
...Along with Gere, who caught some flak for touring the Stenkovec camp in a chauffeured Audi, the Tinseltown-to-tent-city floodgates have clearly been opened: Vanessa Redgrave, Bianca Jagger, Roger Moore and former J. D. Salinger squeeze Joyce Maynard have all been there. Gwyneth Paltrow is mulling a visit, as are Christie Brinkley and hubby Peter Cook. From the Beltway, Hillary Clinton and Liddy Dole have pressed the flesh. And no less an assemblage than Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Boyz II Men and Luciano Pavarotti is signed to do a benefit for the Kosovar kids in Munich...
...many U.N. types, the glitterati are an unwelcome distraction. "Celebrities draw a lot of attention, but we are trying to do this without the flashing lights," Macedonian UNICEF representative Eddie McLoughney told the Ottawa Times. "We learned a lot from Gere's visit. The problem is the focus can end up on the celebrities and the stir they cause rather than the plight of the children." Certainly, for harried aid workers spending their days trying to keep the teeming camps organized, peaceful and above all sanitary, the pint-sized stampedes set off by goodwill ambassador Moore's cratefuls of Teletubbies...