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...advocates had been preparing to protest the military’s presence on campus last week, said Rebecca S. Tinio ’00, a second-year Yale law student and a board member of the Student/Faculty Alliance for Military Equality (SAME). But on Thursday, with the Pentagon conspicuously absent from the group of employers conducting interviews with students, the atmosphere on campus was “joyful,” Tinio said...
That remains the big unanswered question. Everyone in Washington knows it would be political suicide to cut the benefits of today's retirees or those about to retire. Absent those options, there are only three ways to bring the system into fiscal balance: cut future benefits, raise taxes or borrow the money, which adds to the debt...
...preparation for the match, the coaches have stressed the importance of a relaxed attitude. Since the Crimson is a heavy underdog, some of the pressure of previous years is absent...
Fitzpatrick’s teammates have been excitedly following his progress through newspaper articles and internet updates this week, according to senior defensive back Sean Tracy, who is also Fitzpatrick’s roommate. They also helped out their absent captain by emailing him notes from his final exam review session...
...precisely this kind of impersonal recounting of some irrelevant bit of news that is often resorted to by distraught lovers who are contending with some strain and who thus choose to recount details from a neutral territory as they wait out a storm that swirls about them." Absent anything more incriminating, however, such as accounts by someone who saw the two having sex or expressions of carnal desire from Lincoln or Speed, it's hard to view the letter as anything other than a description of a murder trial...