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When Russell T. Graham '95 headed over to the Garment District in Central Square late last week, he wasn't looking for the best bargain on jeans or a sweater. In fact, other customers gave him strange looks when he began trying on skirts and blouses...
Rosario Ames, the wife of America's most dangerous double agent in recent history, was sentenced to five years in prison for aiding her husband Aldrich Ames. It was the minimum she could receive under the terms of her plea bargain. Meanwhile, hubby Aldrich is serving a life sentence without the prospect of parole. For almost a decade, Ames spied for the Soviet Union and then Russia. Prosecutors claim he was responsible for the death of at least 10 CIA agents. Rosario pleaded for leniency so she could take care of their son Paul, now living with relatives...
...Despite bargain memberships that clubs offer students and recent graduates, presidents of many of the nation's 100 Harvard alumni clubs say they have had difficulties recruiting younger members...
...study. Typically the trials consist of a few hundred people and last only a matter of months. In return, the pharmaceutical companies were supposed to conduct follow-up studies that confirmed their drugs' effectiveness after they were out on the market. The FDA held up its side of the bargain by approving two new antiviral drugs -- ddC and d4T -- but the follow-up studies have been delayed. Even so, it has since become clear that the treatments can trigger severe side effects. As a result, no one really knows if the drugs are worth the risk...
...contacts remains, but the agreement means that we have normal relations in one area." Alarcon said he's confident this progress will result in normalized relations in other areas too. But any improvement, of course, depends on how well Cuba holds up the most crucial part of the bargain: halting the waves of immigrants. Alarcon said...