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...alliance will bolster Lesley's offerings in the arts as well as opening up myriad interdisciplinary opportunities...

Author: By Eric M. Green, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lesley College Expands | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson graduated two important starters--Tom Blake and Phil Tseng--and will need new players like Lee to bolster the team...

Author: By Nicholas D. Zeitlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Does Battle With Big Boys | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...Repentance messes with my busy schedule. I won't lie to you, Lord, because of hunger (and because of this flu bug that I caught from my roommate) my mind wandered to just about every subject but repentance. Actually, I spent most of the service thinking about ways to bolster my Rhodes application, and staring at this girl down the aisle who looked like she'd make a great First Lady...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Who Needs Repentance? | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...become a habit in Pakistan that whenever a ruler's popularity disintegrates, he or she begins waving the scimitar of Islam. Never mind that not once since Pakistan became a nation 51 years ago has this noisy brandishing of faith ever worked to bolster the leader's popularity. Now, with Pakistan ostracized after its nuclear tests and on the edge of economic collapse, Prime Minister Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif is reviving the old custom of trying to make the Islamic Republic of Pakistan even more Islamic than it already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: The Sword Of Islam | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...which Secret Service agents were warily watching them come and go, which aides were shooting daggers at her outside the Oval Office, which phone calls Clinton took during their time together. The narrative relies on Lewinsky's testimony for the particulars of 10 alleged sexual encounters, but to bolster her credibility--she did, after all, perjure herself in her Jones affidavit and cooperated with Starr in exchange for immunity--the report time and again uses White House records and contemporaneous accounts to corroborate her stories. Lewinsky remembers being with Clinton on President's Day 1996, when he spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Sex Cover-Up?: High Crimes? Or Just A Sex Cover-Up? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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