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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) broke up a loud party at the Advocate...
...weather stunk for most of last week, but yesterday afternoon the sunlight broke through, just in time for the annual spring celebration on the MAC Quad. Although "Springfest 2000" was not nearly as bombastic as those of years past--sumo wrestling and gladiatorial combat among the most conspicuous absences--it was a genuinely festive event that did much to dispel the dreariness that accompanies April snowfalls...
...heels of the South Carolina primary where he said exactly the opposite. Then on April 19 in Columbia, South Carolina, McCain said that he "feared that if I answered honestly, I could not win in the South Carolina primary. So, I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth." In short, McCain publicly stated that he lied about his feelings on an issue to help him win an election but again came out with an apology after the fact...
Then there was the time they poured glue in the locks, and the times they broke the windows. Most mornings, antiabortion activists are on the scene in Bellevue, waving placards, trying to pass out literature, yelling at the women or couples on their way in. But all that harassment pales next to the day in 1991 when arsonists burned down the farm of Mary and her husband Dr. LeRoy Carhart, 58, who runs the clinic. The fire killed 17 horses, and police never arrested anyone. On that day--the day Nebraska's parental-notification law went into effect...
Last week the literature of Lewinsky expanded considerably with the publication of Truth at Any Cost: Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Bill Clinton (HarperCollins; 326 pages), by Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf. Both were reporters on the scene: Schmidt broke the Lewinsky story in the Washington Post, and Weisskopf followed its every twist for TIME. Starr is at the center of their narrative, a more complicated figure--not quite sympathetic, but more comprehensible--than the Torquemada caricature of Clintonite nightmares...