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...coils of a vast financial and political scandal. This involves the murder of the Baron Jacques de Reinach, an officer of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocaanique, whose Panama Canal project had failed in a miasma of debt and thousands of yellow fever deaths. Fully half of the French Chamber of Deputies had accepted bribes in the form of checks, which they had foolishly signed. They became known to delighted journalists as "chequards...
...aloud. But Moynihan was one of the few who bothered to stay at his seat during the voting. Democrats milled around. Republican Senators engaged in a round of celebratory backslapping with the 20 or so House members, including Speaker Newt Gingrich, who made a rare visit to the Senate chamber. Moynihan sat there with the pinched expression of a man watching the old certainties of his party expire without so much as a moment of silence...
Rounding out the top five were Literature and Arts B-54, "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel," with 393 students, Chemistry 5, "Introduction to Principles of Chemistry," with 379 students, and Biological Sciences 2, "Organismic and Evolutionary Biology," with 356 students...
...enrollment for Chamber Music could have been even higher, but a lottery last week forced many interested students to choose an alternate course...
...Chamber Music's first lecture, Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin '68 joked with his audience that he expected the high turnout was the result of a headline reading "Get an 'A' for No Effort" in the Confidential Guide to Courses's class review...