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With substantially fewer troops, the other student governments generally boast a huge arsenal of funds collected from mandatory fees often twice the size of Harvard's soon-to-be $10 optional one. The Yale and Dartmouth student governments don't receive student funding, but Brown undergrads, who pay the highest fee, fork over $47 a year activities fee, with a little better than half going to student government which gives two-thirds of its budget of campus groups and divides the rest between administrative costs and social events. Columbia and Princeton recently raised their fees, giving their governments hundreds...
Woodward's ebullient talk prompted winces back in London, and he was quickly chided by his Admiralty superiors. Grumbled an aide to Prime Minister Thatcher: "Boast if you must when you've won. But for God's sake, to tell people in advance that you've got it is not even common prudence...
...York and surrounding states. Now the explosion of job opportunities in technological fields has suddenly made R.I.T. an educational mecca. This year's enrollment includes students from 48 states and 45 foreign countries. Admissions officers, who once accepted nearly all comers with a C average in high school, boast that they turn down as many applicants as they take...
That is about the only L.B.J. boast left unquestioned by Dugger, a respected publisher of the muckraking semimonthly Texas Observer. Every other Johnsonian swagger, pronunciamento and claim is held up to the light for flaws and cracks. According to The Politician, Johnson had a million of them. Dugger interviewed the President at length in 1967 and 1968 but broke off their sessions when L.B.J. began pressing for a puff piece. No one can accuse the author of delivering one. His book is very light on endearing anecdotes, and it is unlikely to match in sweep and detail the first volume...
...crowds that thronged to Imam Hossein Square in downtown Tehran to commemorate the founding of the Islamic Republic. Moussavi's exuberance was understandable: for the first time since Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein launched his invasion of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province 18 months ago, Iran could boast that it had gained the upper hand on the battlefield. Appropriately, the places of honor at the rally went to the front-line heroes and wounded soldiers of Iran's bitter struggle with its neighbor...