Word: alertness
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Council President Beth A. Stewart '00 saidmembers will try to campaign more aggressivelythan before to encourage students to revote. Shesaid they plan to advertise in The Crimson, tableand to poster around the campus to alert studentsthat they must vote at the end of next week...
...Elise, a University of Minnesota graduate whose only previous feature was the femme-bonding comedy Set It Off, who is the headline find. Her Denver is alert both to the pain of being insufficiently loved and the frail promise life may hold for a young black woman after slavery. By the end of the film her posture has smartened, her smile is knowing; leaving the house, she becomes a freed slave, not unmindful of Sethe but unchained to her. If Beloved is to succeed with viewers, it will be in part because they recognize that the film belongs, eventually...
...strategist. He went before the nation with a four-minute travesty of the truth. His speech was sanctimonious. But Americans, one hopes, are astute. They should want the resignation or removal of this man. The missile attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan, if not contrived, were convenient. Americans must be alert to the dangers that arise from indifference. They could be spawning a common Clinton species as an acceptable model for future Presidents. JINI DHANRAJGIR Bombay...
...elections, as banks continued to fail and the ruble plunged. But the communists in parliament warned that if Yeltsin ordered them to leave, they would not go. They started up the machinery to impeach the President. Key military and security units around Moscow were put on heightened alert. It felt a lot like 1993, when Yeltsin ordered tanks to fire on the parliament building to dissolve a rebellious legislature. Meanwhile, governors across Russia began to act on their own to replace the central government that had vaporized three weeks earlier. From Kaliningrad to Yakutia, provincial leaders decreed price controls, slashed...
...approached the record and the pressure seemed unendurable, he started hitting home runs at a pace never before seen: seven in eight games. The weekend before the broken record, the McGwire alert was sounded: a press corps 600 strong went to St. Louis, McGwire's 10-year-old son flew in to be bat boy, and it seemed that everyone in the world with the last name of Maris had to put his or her life on hold to sit in Busch Stadium. "He put more pressure on himself that day than any other time I've seen him," Tony...