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Brookline lawyer Daniel G. Partan, who chaired a town committee to investigate the health and environmental risks of MATEP in the 1970s, says Harvard used its clout to turn the tables in the University’s favor...
...what we've witnessed in the past year or so is a new pattern: successive top-level edicts that bolster the clout of Pyongyang's overseas adversaries?particularly Rumsfeldian warriors who dream of imposing "regime change" on North Korea...
Clearly, the religious right does not have Israel’s best interest in mind. The ADL and other Jewish groups should not and cannot sacrifice their principles for the added political clout and power the Christian Zionists may provide. One half of the alliance wants peace, the other wants the literal destruction of the world...
Harvard must use its considerable clout and resources to combat this shortage of services—at least until the Commonwealth of Massachusetts starts to take sexual assault service funding seriously. The University should spearhead a consortium of Boston area schools to hire several full-time SANE nurses for the city’s higher education community. Besides benefiting students, the action would help take some of the burden off the already-understaffed statewide program. With area colleges and universities each contributing a portion of the funding, colleges can then make sure that rape kits can be performed at many...
...dollars worth of food, oil and project aid in recent years as a reward for halting nuclear programs, its leaders believed that the international community would again appease its belligerent behavior. In the process, Kim counted on polishing his domestic demi-god-like persona and boosting his international clout by demanding one-on-one talks with the American leadership...