Word: widener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seriously think the Serbs will picnic as their opponents arm, or that they'll suddenly respect the lightly defended enclaves where innocents have gathered to escape the slaughter, the so-called safe havens they are currently shelling with impunity? Similarly, there is no certainty that the war won't widen in the Balkans anyway, and hardly any chance that the battle will be decisive enough to roll back the Serbs' territorial gains (although a new balance of power could conceivably precipitate serious negotiations). "All of that may be true," says a Clinton adviser, "but at least the President will...
...mean to intimidate me by appealing to the authorities, but he should be warned that his action might inadvertently have that effect on others. There is little enough frank speech on race as things stand. My remark--and it will not be the last--was intended to widen the range of things that can be said publicly at Harvard. At present there is a lamentable discrepancy between what is said and thought in private and what can be discussed openly without fear. Professor Harvey C. Mansfield...
...know that Mr. Ali did not mean to intimidate me by appealing to the authorities, but he should be warned that his action might inadvertently have that effect on others," he wrote. "My remark--and it will not be the last--was intended to widen the range of things that can be said publicity at Harvard...
...second intriguing event, recorded by the Collider Detector in December, has come under especially intense scrutiny. The discovery of the top will no doubt emerge gradually, believes Peter Galison, a science historian at Harvard. "The expanding circle of belief," he says, "must start inside the experimental collaboration and then widen to include the whole physics community." How long this process will take, no one can gauge, for it depends not only on scientific ingenuity but also on the whims of Lady Luck...
This year the performance has taken a new turn under director Daniela Raz, who hopes to widen the play's audience. In conversation with The Crimson, she said she would like to see the play done before "people who wouldn't normally see it, for small audiences that can really interact...