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...formed a special committee to investigate students’ masturbatory habits. After just one room, however—a Greenough single on the second floor—the committee was so inundated with “reams and reams” of hard data that they were forced to abandon the project...
Finally, the attempts by the government to recruit informers among Iraqi-Americans has an eerie similarity to the ill-fated TIPS program that the administration had to abandon after public outcry. The government should not be involved in recruiting informers and gathering information with specific threats of terrorist or criminal activity. Although every citizen should be vigilant of suspicious or threatening actions, America has a culture of openness and tolerance that would be poisoned by intense government surveillance measures. The fight against terrorism must go forward, but not at the expense of our Constitutional freedoms...
...Sometimes it would be alone at Brother Rice, shooting around on the floor he used to own. Other times he would participate in leagues around Chicago. The play was competitive, as the teams were stacked with once-famous or never-famous ex-college players who couldn’t abandon the game...
...postelection bounce, Gephardt and Daschle appear the most bloodied. The day after the election, when reality set in, Daschle conceded he had to carry the blame for Democratic losses in the Senate. "I can't shrug it," he said. "I can't shirk it." Sources say he will probably abandon a presidential run and focus on being Senate minority leader. As House minority leader, Gephardt spent most of the past decade trying to make up the 52-seat loss to Republicans suffered in 1994. "I've been consumed," he told TIME, "and I've wanted to win in the worst...
Despite the question marks surrounding the rushing game, the Crimson does not plan to abandon a strategy that worked a year...