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Duehay said the best way for the council to limit the meetings was to limit the speeches that often dominate the council chamber...
...surprised that the Ad Board refused to open up its Star Chamber proceedings, even to carefully screened and trained students who would serve on investigative subcommittees. Disappointed, but not surprised. The Ad Board has consistently resisted student involvement in its operations and cried "confidentiality" every time it has been suggested. As we said last February when the Task Force's recommendations were first released, students who live in this community have a right to help decide verdicts in the disciplinary complaints brought against their peers...
...PSYCHIC MOLD. Historians have long contended that a totalitarian system developed in Russia because its people were too servile to enjoy the blessings of democracy. Anyone who has watched as waves of debate roar through the chamber of the Congress of People's Deputies knows that this is simply not true. The Russian is more than a democrat; in his heart of hearts, he is an anarchist. Russia's rulers have lived in constant dread of the kind of spontaneous, popular uprisings that troubled the czarist era and set off the Bolshevik Revolution. After the communists came to power, others...
...overhead, cream-colored puffs of rock billow within arm's reach, seeming to defy gravity. Welcome to Lake of the Clouds, an enchanted spot of earth that has never seen the sun or felt the morning dew. Carved out of solid rock nearly 1 million years ago, this bewitching chamber lies 300 m (1,000 ft.) below the floor of the New Mexican desert at the lowest point in Carlsbad Cavern...
...long public life. He began to talk about his virtuosities and his great record, but he was never comfortable doing it. He had the angel of that remarkable woman hovering over him. And his father, a stately tower of a man who used to walk the Senate chamber with mirth on his lips and a deep love of country. So much of George Bush is family...