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...athletic department made the recent cuts without prior students' or coaches' knowledge. Shocked and dismayed by the decimating announcement, Penn's athletic community scrambled to counteract the administration's edicts. The students succeeded in reinstating all sports but hockey; however, if the athletic department had consulted students and coaches beforehand, the negotiations might never have been necessary...
...weren't taking this one lightly. They were playing the meet up beforehand, and with their first year coach and everything it was a similar situation to two years ago," Bernal explained...
...week (his favorite, which he has seen eight times: a Jean Gabin-Sophia Loren film called Le Verdict). To keep him from settling in anywhere, however, the Boumedienne regime changes his location from time to time, secretly and without warning. Ben Bella is allowed visitors, but they are screened beforehand and taken to his home blindfolded...
Rabkin's proposals allow the doctor and the patient--with the consent of an advisory committee--to agree beforehand that, after a certain point of deterioration of the patient's physical condition, the doctors will not make resuscitation attempts...
Despite their hopes for Sadat's success, the Saudis bluntly turned down an Egyptian plea to bless his proposed Cairo summit publicly. One reason: despite some earlier evidence to the contrary, Saudi officials insist that they were not consulted beforehand about Sadat's trip to Jerusalem. After all, a Jeddah businessman observed, "before going into a major venture you should always consult your banker." Sadat kept quiet and simply gambled that his credit would still be good...