Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campuses like Irvine that may be more socially welcoming than pressure cookers like Berkeley or UCLA. It's a view some minority students at Irvine share. "A lot of my friends said, 'Berkeley, Berkeley, Berkeley,'" Tiger Dunams, a junior at Irvine, recalls of her college-choosing days. "I went there and looked at it, and it didn't seem like it was the thing for me. My friend goes to Berkeley, and she doesn't really meet people. I'm interacting with professors and graduate students, and I've met the chancellor. You can tell the faculty is really reaching...
...first, I was a bit shell-shocked, stuck in my crotchety Boston mode. When I went for my daily run, I would keep my head down and eyes on the sidewalk, taking care not to make eye contact with anyone--and especially not those lewd construction workers, for God's sake...
...then I went to Harvard, and it all changed. "What are you doing this summer?" became a frequently-asked-question at Annenberg, alongside "What house are you in?" and "What are you doing tonight?" I met people whose summer plans surpassed anything I plan on doing in my entire life: "Yeah, this summer I'm going to travel to Tanzania and help the new government plan a capitalist economy, while faxing my weekly column in to Newsweek. Then I start my gig with Greenpeace in August and I hope to have saved the humpback whales by September...
...society, then you?re bound to have another explosion in the region," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Dealing with that explosion will prove a lot more expensive than the development aid necessary to rebuild the region." The U.N. may have been left on the sidelines when NATO went to war, but now it's being asked to clean up the debris and heal the wounds ?- and it?s not going to let the West get away with trumpeting a moral victory on the cheap...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataAfter a jittery morning of anticipation, the markets heard "neutral bias" and bolted. The Dow went from 44 points down to 74 up in less than a minute. Bond yields momentarily dipped below 6 percent for the first time in weeks. An extended rally ?- given the strong correlation between consumers and the value of their portfolios ?- could of course set off the very overheat that Greenspan is so worried about. But the indexes are short-sighted, emotional creatures, and Wednesday the emotion was relief. "The uncertainty is over, and Greenspan clearly is done raising...