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...attitude to the Sudan coup caused the gap between me and the Soviet leaders to widen. Throughout July, August, and September, all I could receive in answer to my messages [inquiring about arms deliveries] was that [the leaders] were away in their Crimean summer resort...
...coerce students to attain a balanced education. And the Core will not solve one of Harvard's fundamental problems: the dearth of close associations between students and Faculty members. Instead, by setting the huge introductory course up as the basis of a Harvard education, the Core proposal would only widen the gulf between students and Faculty members. A Harvard education could easily be reduced to instruction by busy graduate students who are much more interested in pleasing their doctoral advisers than accommodating the students in their classes...
Douglas argues that rather than having the negative and counter-productive effect of making admissions committees lower their conventional standards, affirmative action can have the progressive effect of alerting admissions committees to ways in which they can widen their standards...
...women get better basic care in hospitals and the fact that many deliveries may require aid that few midwives can provide in the home. Examples: anesthesia; delivery by cesarean section; forceps delivery; episiotomy, a surgical procedure in which an incision is made from the vulva through the perineum to widen the birth canal...
...school, the troops used satchel charges to widen the gap made by the armored car, causing thunderous explosions that awoke sleeping villagers and brought them running into the street. Soldiers shouted, "Give up! Give up! You are surrounded!" Some of the onlookers clasped their hands in front of their eyes, afraid to look at the scene of battle. Cried one woman: "Dear God, they're all dead!" One by one, the soldiers led the four captured Moluccans from the building and forced them to lie down for a body search. At 6 o'clock the villagers saw teachers...