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...vision of the council's activist potential. In the same vein, The Crimson's editorial staff suggests that a PUCC victory would mean the politicization of the U.C. grants process, a potential disaster for conservative student groups. If any of this were true, students would have good reason for alarm. Thankfully, however, these positions rest on several misconceptions about PUCC's character and aims...
...three-alarm fire caused extensive damage to a Harvard office building at 4-10 Story St. in Harvard Square late yesterday afternoon...
...trouble at Sutter Creek (pop. 2,000) has helped spread alarm throughout the Mother Lode country, one of the fastest growing parts of California. And the worries extend all the way to Montana, where a delegation from the U.N. agency UNESCO last week toured the site of a proposed mine just 2 1/2 miles from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups oppose the project as hazardous to the park's ecosystem, and President Clinton has imposed a moratorium on new mining in the area, which could impede the project's start-up. Among the danger signs: contamination of two nearby creeks...
...McLarty was all business when he arrived at the Oval Office for an appointment and was quickly waved inside by Bill Clinton's longtime doorkeeper, Nancy Hernreich. But the inner sanctum was empty. "Where's the President?" asked McLarty, a senior adviser. "What do you mean?" Hernreich responded with alarm. Before the two could panic, McLarty noticed the French door near Clinton's desk was ajar. Picking up the trail, he went outside. There on the South Lawn, about 30 yds. from the Oval Office, the President of the United States was standing in shirt-sleeves and tie, his hands...
...occasion, after a false fire alarm, students were allowed to return to the building even though the fire alarm system was not reset for more than eight hours. On another, the administration was reluctant to even inform proctors that the Harvard Police has been (erroneously) informed that a convicted rapist was reportedly bound for Harvard to visit a student enrolled in the secondary school program. The Harvard Police went so far as to stake out the room of the student involved, but proctors were forbidden to discuss the problem with students, even to squelch the resulting rumors...