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...officials announced Yeltsin had a head cold, while he was running for re-election in the summer of 1996, it turned out to be a loose synonym for a near fatal heart attack. For the rest of the year, he was prostrate and the country was paralyzed. A multiple-bypass operation in November 1996 seemed to bring a miracle recovery. Then two months later, Yeltsin came down with another "cold"--this time, his aides said, the result of a post-sauna chill. This cold quickly metamorphosed into pneumonia and two more months of anxiety, political stagnation and fruitless discussion about...
Currently, a four or five on the A.P. biology or chemistry test can provide a bypass from a Science B class, or a four or five on the A.P. physics C exam can provide a bypass from Science A. Though currently favoring the non-science concentrators at this liberal-arts college, the policy was first approved because the committee felt the material covered by a science A.P. test was comparable to Harvard material in a way A.P. humanities classes...
...part of an alarming increase in the number of requirements. We question whether the Faculty Council has considered the sort of course load they are requiring of the classes of the next millennium. As it stands now, with the upcoming Quantitative Reasoning requirement and the removal of the science bypass, even before any increase in the language requirement, future Harvard students will face (including Expos) a potential 12 half-courses of requirements, fully three semesters of their time at Harvard...
...distributors we were working with gravitated to whoever earned the most for them," which mostly meant local firms. Some customers objected to buying cutlery made in China, because they thought the Chinese could not make quality merchandise. Lam switched some of her attention from art to distribution. To bypass the balky distributors, she set up a warehouse in Germany and contacted stores and boutiques directly to persuade them to buy the goods stockpiled there...
...Needs Congress While the Representatives are away, Clinton's play will be to bypass troublesome Republicans and appoint Bill Lan Lee to the country's top civil rights post...