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...Guardia, who was a symbol of the warmth and ebullience associated with New York Italians. Mayor Giuliani has said that he models himself on La Guardia. This must strike many New Yorkers as the equivalent of Kenneth Starr's saying that early in his life he decided to adopt the style and wit of John F. Kennedy: something got lost in the translation. (Those who believe in a just and vengeful God, as Starr apparently does, must have felt the heavens rumble when, around the time the Office of the Independent Counsel was trying to bully Monica Lewinsky's mother...
Reeves, an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, suggested that the government adopt "political policies to nudge us toward equality...
According to Durand's office, the Community Preservation Act would enable communities across the state to choose by local ballot referendum to adopt a transfer tax of up to 1 percent on the purchase of real estate...
...Coop--I find only double lattes bubbling forth, not human understanding, and the solitary and studious, not the concerned and informed. The goings on of administrators often dominate the pages of this newspaper and raise the ire of our nascent activist community, as the administrators appear slow to adopt the changes many feel are necessary to unite the disaffected factions of the campus. Despite our pleadings, we have no multicultural student center, junior faculty are almost never tenured, there is no ethnic studies department, the Core has not (really) been reformed and finals are still after Christmas...
...Marvin says he feels that the existing system of dividing talent could be improved if Harvard singing groups were to adopt a system like Yale's where a capella groups do not recruit first-year students, thereby leaving many to join the chorus...