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April 20: Rudenstine and leaders of Radcliffe College announce that the womens institution will merge into Harvard and become the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The deal culminates more than two years of intense, sometimes bitter negotiations. Officials on both sides say Rudenstine was the driving force in working towards an agreement...
When Arizona Sen. John S. McCain endorsed Texas Gov. George W. Bush last week, the tension and distaste between the two former rivals was palpable. Through bitter, back-and-forth rounds of primaries and personal attacks, Bush and McCain developed a great deal of animosity towards each other. At this point, both politicians feel that burying the hatchet would be in their best interests. McCain hopes to repair his tattered reputation inside the Republican Party, and Bush knows that he needs moderate McCain supporters to win the general election...
...believe in this message. Instead they try to live their lives according to their God--to be a good Christian, good Hindu, good Jew, good Muslim, etc. These people have a strong belief in a value system and see themselves as moral people, yet they are neither bitter nor aggressive towards those who do not share their beliefs. It is in this manner that religion has taken hold in this country, and it this spirit which drove the Founding Fathers to create "One Nation Under...
...remember is that the Nigerian military commanders in Freetown were extremely angry at the West, because they lacked the equipment they needed to do the job the West wanted them to do. They needed helicopter gunships, but the West would only offer non-lethal aid, so they were very bitter about being sent to do a job without being given the tools they needed...
What do corporate small fry think of this? "It can really hurt cash-strapped concerns struggling to maintain their profit margins," says John Emling, a lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in Washington. "But if we have to swallow this bitter pill, we want some sugar coating (such as the proposed tax cut) to help it go down easier...