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...overwhelmingly negative. Allegations that the John F. Voith ’07-Tara Gadgil ’07campaign registered HaddockRiley.com—the surnames of their biggest rivals, John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ’07—attempted to bribe the Magnus Grimeland ’07-Tom D. Hadfield ’08 campaign to drop out of the race, and made misleading and conflicting statements to the Harvard Republican Club and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transsexual Student Alliance led us to rescind our endorsement of their candidacy...
...Raging Grannies” organization, joined in shouting anti-recruitment and anti-war slogans. The Solomon Amendment is a Congressional statute that allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from any school that limits military recruitment on its campus. The Solomon Amendment “is a way to bribe schools into militarization...it’s totally unconstitutional, especially considering that the military is explicitly homophobic,” said Tom D. Arabia, one of the organizers of the event, who is affiliated with Northeastern University Campus Against War and Racism. Although some of the protesters specifically criticized...
Iraq in certain instances, such as when military officials tried to bribe Iraqi newspapers to print stories that painted the U.S. in a favorable light, the former dean of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and a former marine explained to an audience of about 30 yesterday. In a panel discussion entitled “The Role of the Military in Exercising Soft Power,” Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations Joseph S. Nye and former captain and current KSG student Nathaniel Fick argued that the military has to uphold its image as a positive force...
...Zuma's troubles began in June when the Durban High Court convicted his friend and financial adviser Schabir Shaik on charges of corruption and fraud. Judge Hilary Squires said that Shaik had paid some $180,000 to Zuma in bribes, and had also helped a French arms trading company bribe Zuma to deflect corruption investigations over a $7.5 billion government deal to buy ships, submarines, helicopters, jets and other arms. Squires said that there was "overwhelming" evidence of a corrupt relationship between Shaik and Zuma. Soon after, President Mbeki sacked his deputy, saying that the court's verdict had "raised...
...acid flashbacks,'' groaned one official. The most titillating charges, which came to light in the conservative monthly the American Spectator and in the Los Angeles Times, portrayed Clinton as a reckless, obsessive womanizer who used state troopers to arrange trysts even after the presidential election and then tried to bribe potential squealers with offers of federal jobs. The portrayal seemed perilously close to the old ''Slick Willie'' caricature, potentially the kind of story that could seriously damage Clinton's hard-won image as a steadfast, effective leader. Yet the sex stories were probably the lesser of Clinton's headaches last...