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...Kennedy was worried by delays in the deployment of two battalions of Army military police to assist U.S. marshals, and is heard in one tape asking his aides, “I wonder if it takes this long to get everybody ready...
...cartoonist husband Bil Keane during World War II while the American artist was stationed in her native Australia. After they married and returned to the U.S., Thelma managed all her husband's business affairs throughout his career. She is immortalized in Bil's work--which gets an assist from their son, Jeff Keane, and now appears in some 1,500 newspapers...
...problems?" then there is no good argument against it. Antidepressants are not that dangerous. And let's put safety aside altogether. Let's say we had a really safe antidepressant, or an antidepressant that's as risky as aspirin or Tylenol. Why shouldn't people be allowed to assist themselves and be in charge or their own lives? In a way when you put it like that it's hard to argue. In some sense - in America, certainly - an argument about autonomy and people making their own choices can end up trumping anything else...
...clothes were accepted and where tens of thousands of others like the Wus left their jobs and families and rushed to aid their compatriots. The roads to the disaster zone were jammed with cars carrying banners that read RESIST THE QUAKE: PROVIDE RELIEF and WHEN ONE HAS DIFFICULTY, EIGHT ASSIST. The traffic was so overwhelming that authorities had to close the roads and turn back volunteers. So many clothes were contributed that they were piled in mounds six feet (two meters) high in some devastated towns. Within days, contributions from the country's private companies, not known for their charity...
Catherine R. Shapiro, the current resident dean of Leverett House, has been appointed to the newly-created post of assistant dean of residential life, House Master Howard M. Georgi ’68 announced last week. After serving in Leverett for seven years—in a position that individuals typically hold for only five—Shapiro will take her experience to University Hall to provide administrative support for the resident deans of all the Houses. “The Office of Residential Life and the dean of the College’s office are spending...