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Sofen said he originally voted to abstain butlater changed his vote to favor Campbell'simpeachment...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Vice Chair Impeached By Board | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

...more interesting question is why, although 3,000 students voted, did 3,000 not? Given the three-week barrage of posters, table tents, e-mail messages and articles about grapes that preceded the referendum, how could so many abstain? Admittedly, Harvard students are a busy bunch. Even with all the publicity, even with voting as easy as a card swipe, it is not easy to shake us out of the academic and social shells we inhabit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After Grapes: Where Is Our Conscience? | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

Although alcohol is a central element of the initiation, she adds, team members who do not want to drink do not have to and the choice to abstain is respected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pledging To Drink? | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...effort to please him, that he will not have sex. Hank replies that he would want that if Bobby was his daughter, not his son. Bobby wonders about this double standard, forcing Hank to respond that, yes, it is unfair that boys should have sex while girls should abstain from it, but "that's the way things...

Author: By Sozi T. Sozinho, | Title: Men Can Be Virgins, Too | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

...only violation of the Accords that has taken place has been by the Palestinians. As Article XXII of the Interim Agreement reads: "[both sides shall]...abstain from incitement, including hostile propaganda...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, | Title: The Hill of Evil Counsel | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

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