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First, over spring break, the Crimson battled nobody in a 13-6 loss to seventh-ranked Duke in Raleigh, N.C., a loss which ironically only seemed to affirm the team's top-20 status...
Clinton faces four choices. He can revoke MFN, affirm America's moral principles and cripple Chinese-American commerce, which last year totaled almost $40 billion. Gone in the process would probably be any chance of enlisting Beijing's help in rolling back North Korea's nuclear-weapons program. Gone too would be approximately 200,000 high-paying U.S. export jobs, which is why Treasury, Commerce and White House economic officials favor retaining...
...have been pursuing the possibility of a modified arrangement with MIT that would both affirm our policy of nondiscrimination and maintain ROTC as an option for students attending Harvard," said Jonathan New, associate director for news and public information...
...have been working toward a resolution thatwould both affirm our policy of non-discriminationand maintain ROTC as an option for studentsattending Harvard," Rudenstine said in February...
...scene is imaginary, but it captures the spirit of a fascinating Supreme Court decision last week to affirm the borrowing rights of parody, an artistic % form that has long suffered in copyright limbo. Normally, artists are entitled to payment for use of their words, tunes or images. A 1976 law lists some exceptions to this rule, including scholarship and commentary, whereby unpaid excerpting (known as "fair use") is allowed. Parody, however, goes unmentioned. Should send-up artists, whose ranks have included everyone from Lewis Carroll to "Weird Al" Yankovic, be included too? More specifically, can Campbell, best known...