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...page "complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief" filed yesterday begins by saying it is an action "to compel the defendant to make available all records in its possession relating to indirect costs for work performed for Harvard University for the federal government...
Yale, which must slash an $11 million athletic budget by $560,000, will retire the varsity men's water-polo and wrestling teams and the junior varsity men's hockey team. Disgruntled Eli captains said they had been targeted because of low attendance and Title IX regulations, which compel universities to offer equal athletic opportunities to men and women...
...first tradition of American foreign policy, appropriately, is America first. It was often isolationist, as in George Washington's warning in his Farewell Address against permanent alliances. But it was not necessarily so. (Washington had been interested in westward expansion since colonial days.) Our interests might compel us to pick fights; as America expanded in the world economy, and as weapons became transoceanic, we also came to have interests in such things as peace and stability. But we would continue to stay out of fights that did not directly concern us, and our concerns did not automatically include every instance...
Despite protests from fellow students who saw the flags as symbols of slavery and oppression, neither Kerrigan nor McCormack budged. So Jacinta T. Townsend '92, a Cabot House resident, decided to hang a swastika from her window, hoping that the University would compel her to remove it. Then, she thought, the University would also have to force Kerrigan and McCormack to remove their flags...
...gunners were three White House aides: Budget Director Richard Darman, White House chief of staff John Sununu and Michael Boskin, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The troika treated most measures that would compel conservation as unwarranted government interference in the free market. "Watkins' proposals just got blasted by Sununu, Darman and Boskin," says a White House official. "They just tore them apart...