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...Riley’s left, for helping organize the committee’s first meeting in November. Mahan faces the daunting challenge of filling the oversized shoes of outgoing council President Rohit Chopra ’04. Disarmingly polite, Mahan has unveiled a series of ambitious proposals to bolster campus security. He hopes to make the age-old demand for 24-hour universal keycard access a reality and to pressure Cambridge officials into installing more lights in the Cambridge Common...
...billion Record amount spent by Japan in foreign-currency markets in January to bolster the value of the U.S. dollar against the yen. Even so, the dollar kept falling...
...little cubby labeled DUKAKIS REDUX. He co-sponsored a "two strikes, you're out" bill in 1996 that would have led to life imprisonment for sexual predators. He has worked with Senate majority leader Bill Frist to increase global AIDS funding and with Republican Kit Bond to bolster day care--including funding religious groups. Indeed, Kerry talks up faith-based charities with the zeal of a convert. "No one can tell me these programs don't work," he says...
...students gathered in Ticknor lounge yesterday had reaped the benefits of the College’s renewed efforts to bolster study abroad, and even despite dysfunctional trains and sub-par hotels, Corlett and Hotz fully endorse international study...
...judge said the person responsible for the shooting was actually another member of the group, Som Doeun, and that Nhim Sophea merely touched the trigger accidentally in a bid to prevent the slaughter. Whatever happened that night in October, few expect the prosecutors to find additional witnesses to bolster the case against Hun Sen's nephew. Says Sok Sam Oeun, executive director of the nongovernmental legal-aid organization Cambodian Defenders Project: "I don't think they will find enough evidence." The judge says he expects to reopen the trial in two or three weeks...