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Better still, make it up. Recently the Pulitzer prizewinning historian Joseph Ellis, who has every reason to be content with a distinguished intellectual life, admitted he had fabricated a history of having been a paratrooper in Vietnam. Sadly, crazily, he gave himself a past to amend some self-perceived deficiency...
Thursday afternoon Kennedy charged into the L.B.J. Room off the Senate floor feeling pumped. Bush's first broadside hadn't sunk him. Kennedy's team had just defeated the Republicans' initial attempt to amend his bill. When Kennedy appeared inside the room, 30 lobbyists for patients'-rights groups and powerful health-care organizations like the American Medical Association broke into applause. But he quieted them. This President was good at snatching back victory, he knew. The grassroots activists had to keep the phones ringing in Senate offices. "We can't let up," Kennedy told the lobbyists...
...physical resources and planning, cites Knowles’ preliminary steps to developing the North Yard Precinct: initial interviews with department chairs, a subsequent letter to all department chairs elaborating the goals that emerged from those interviews, a second set of interviews with the chairs (and other faculty) to amend those goals, and a third interview to clarify individual departments’ square footage needs...
Last night, at an otherwise mundane meeting, the Undergraduate Council voted unanimously to amend its by-laws to include information about HCC’s mission, its structure and its general operations...
...council also tentatively voted to amend its constitution by adding a clause about HCC. That vote, however, will not become official until later this week, as council members are allowed time to change their votes on constitutional amendment changes...