Word: amendment
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...Undergraduate Council made the prudent decision Oct. 29 to swallow its pride and amend the failed anti-homophobia grant bill it passed last March. In its original form, the bill provided a $1,000 grant to a student group or group of students who came up with the best plan to fight homophobia at Harvard. By the Oct. 29 meeting, however, no applications had been received to date. As amended, the grant offer will terminate at the end of November unless applications are given to the council beforehand...
...different arrest, in 1968, when Bush and his Yale fraternity brothers were charged with stealing a Christmas wreath, in what they described as a prank. Slater says he asked Bush whether he had been arrested since that incident, and Bush said no. Bush then seemed to want to amend his answer, Slater recalled, but spokeswoman Hughes prevented the interview from going further, leaving his answer as a denial. Hughes disputed Slater's account, saying that Bush insists he didn't answer no to the first question; by leaving Slater with the "impression" that there might have been another arrest...
...council passed a bill to amend an anti-homophobia grant authorized this spring. After a gay tutor in Mather House was the target of repeated homophobic graffiti last year, the council voted to allocate $1,000 from its special fund to challenge a student group to host an anti-homophobia event...
...College has recognized the lack of interaction between its Faculty and its students and has made various proposals to amend the situation. In this year's annual report to the faculty, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles suggested a worthy proposal that would foster interaction between the Faculty and the group of Harvard students with the least amount of faculty interaction: first-year students. Knowles recommended that all first-years should have the opportunity to participate in a freshman Seminar during their first year at college. The atmosphere of these classes, because they are conducted with a pass/fail grading...
...State Strobe Talbott said Sunday that "President Putin made absolutely clear to President Clinton that Russia continues to oppose changes to the ABM treaty that the United States has proposed." In order to deploy the proposed missile-defense system, the U.S. would have to either convince Russia to amend the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which forbids either side from adding to its missile-defense systems, or else back out of the treaty. But the Russians warn that scrapping the treaty - which is based on the logic that defense systems diminish one side's fear of retaliation for launching a nuclear...