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...storm will bring anything from 6 to 15 inches of snow and sleet to the area, starting mid-afternoon today, according to the national weather service's branch in Boston. Gusty winds are expected to worsen the travel conditions just as Harvard students scramble to depart safely for the holidays...
...lawmakers of both parties who had passed the bill overwhelmingly after what had seemed insurmountable gridlock. The law broadens the definition of who is a lobbyist to include nearly 10 times as many people than the 6,500 now registered. One loophole now closed: the contacts with executive branch officials and congressional aides now count. Reformers, though, point to what may emerge as a serious weakness: the law still allows fast-growing grass-roots lobbying, in which practitioners use databases to find thousands of sympathetic citizens to flood Congress with telephone calls and letters...
...center supplants a charming if antiquated system of information retrieval and delivery that included "markers" clipping daily newspapers and filing them by keywords and names. The new center--a branch of the larger Time Inc. library system--is largely computer driven, providing access to a wealth of online databanks, from services like Nexis and Dialog to the Internet. Says Thornton: "There's been a revolutionary change in the way we gather and deliver information...
...42nd annual conference of Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN), a branch of the International Relations Council, began Thursday evening and will conclude Sunday afternoon. More than 150 Harvard students will also participate in the conference as officers and staff members...
Abigail R. Branch '98 lives in Quincy House and is concentrating in Social Studies. Andrea Johnson '98-'99 lives in Quincy House and is concentrating in Environmental Science and Public Policy...