Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things I would like to be doing are creative writing and policy work. I would be unhappy if I didn't think I could wake up every morning and I didn't have control over my life. In 15 years, maybe I'll be doing public service somewhere. I enjoy public service. It's not something I dislike doing...
From a Harvard standpoint, it might not seem so odd that the College administrators have employed a closed-door process for choosing the undergraduate representatives to a new committee which will oversee the Trust. The Trust, a powerful group created in the wake of the merger, will dole out nearly $20,000 in annual funding to student groups interested in women's and gender issues...
...keeping Chechnya under Russian control is stricken with almost as many problems. The devastation the Russian army has left in its wake has done irreparable damage to any sort of legitimacy the Russian government might have had to rule the Chechens. Russia recently tried to organize a loyalist government--the only Chechen who would co-operate with them was a former mayor of Grozny in Russian prison following his conviction for embezzlement. In every shelled village, everyone who is killed or maimed leaves behind several family members who fiercely hate the Russian army and its rule...
...decision we as Masters would have chosen for him to make, and we are deeply saddened by it," Naddaff and Haffrey wrote. "All of us can understand, though, the stress Kyriell has felt in the wake of the various homophobic incidents targeting him this fall...
...these efforts are laudable, but unless they are universally adopted, patients will continue to die--not through gross negligence or incompetence but through plain human error. "This is a wake-up call," says Arthur Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers, based in New York City, and a member of the committee that wrote the new report. "The American health-care system has not put safety at the top of its agenda. Generally, they say this problem doesn't exist. But this is not an aberration. It's an all too common occurrence. And it is unconscionable to allow...