Word: attested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff when it comes to his hearty recommendation of one John Huang to the Clinton transition team in 1993. "I have known John Huang for four years, having worked with him on a number of economic development projects," Daschle wrote to transition-team head Richard Riley. "I can personally attest to John's strong background in trade and Pacific Rim issues." Huang, who has become the symbol of shady Democratic fund raising, was then an executive with the Indonesia-based Lippo Group conglomerate, and interested in positions at Commerce, Treasury and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. According...
...Baltimore Ravens (from Miami Dolphins): Reinard Wilson, DE, Florida State. Mel Kiper, Jr., says he's too small. I say he's too good, as his 101 tackles, 22 tackles-for-loss and 13 sacks last year attest...
...years ago, I would have said that a person's sexual orientation is far too deeply ingrained to be changed by any means. The history of misguided and futile attempts to make gay people straight seemed to attest to that. But recently, researchers have had remarkable success in changing the behavior of laboratory animals by grafting nerve cells into their hypothalamus: animals that were bred to have an abnormally short, 20-hour sleep/wake cycle by grafting brain cells from other animals into them...
...their erstwhile, trusted leader. However, Levitin's touting of Israeli democracy is more problematical. Israel has historically been vastly more "murderous" than the Palestinians, in terms of numbers of civilians killed. These killings continue, as the families of the 200 Palestinian civilians killed since the Oslo agreement will attest. And democracy? Vast tracts of "public" land in Israel are owned by the Jewish National Fund, whose assets exist to benefit "persons of Jewish religion, race or origin." The Jewish Agency, which has a similar mandate, controls much of the development budget: through a variety of legal ruses, state benefits...
...what most will attest as one of the ugliest playoff wins in recent memory, the Harvard men's hockey team squeaked by St. Lawrence, 4-2, in last night's ECAC preliminary round match at Bright Hockey Center...