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Several years ago the government began to question how much Schleifer and Hay, two principal players in the HIID project in Russia, profited personally from their work and intimate knowledge of the Russian economy...
President Clinton's plan embraces the rhetoric of re-inventing government. What it re-invents, however, is excessive federal control over a vital issue that the national authority bungled a long time ago...
Several months ago, neighborhood residents filed a petition with the Cambridge Historical Commission to preserve the site, which is next to the Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall...
Consider the Elster case. On a Saturday afternoon, almost exactly a year ago, several students saw an individual led out of Kirkland House by Harvard police officers. The next day, at Kirkland's regular Sunday House committee meeting, the masters vaguely alluded to some unfortunate incident that had occurred and asked the students to remain calm and supportive. When pressed for details, the masters refused to elaborate...
...three victims drove past, he shot and killed them all. He then got up from his hiding place and shot each one in the face. Mease was to die by lethal injection in two weeks, and Carnahan, the governor, had approved 26 executions since he took office six years ago. Yet he could not be expected to withstand the pressure of a personal request from John Paul II, and last Thursday he granted Mease clemency...