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...reputation for being an international club scene, with big-name music groups appearing at the neighboring Paradise. Past acts at the club include Billy Joel, Elvis Costello, the Police, Tom Petty, Dire Straits, U2, Prince, and Aerosmith...
Orbinski, the director of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), painted a dire picture of the state of health around the world in his address...
However you feel about the lovefest nature of the class, we at Dartboard feel the enormous turnout, mentioned repeatedly by the professors, is a testament to the dire need for such innovative academic opportunities at the University. These professors are willing to take risks not only with the content of what they are teaching but also with an interactive class format (that distinctly reminds us of what Harvard's brochures made us think education here would...
...GORE or BILL BRADLEY will emerge victorious but dead broke and dependent on the D.N.C. to carry on the campaign until the August convention, when each party's nominee gets public funding. Meanwhile, likely G.O.P. victor GEORGE W. BUSH will be waging war with his multimillion-dollar stockpile. The dire straits have prompted BILL CLINTON to sign on for a major fund-raising tour in the next few months, party sources tell TIME, headlining at least a dozen events in a bid to raise an additional $40 million in the first quarter. The D.N.C. suffered as Democrats' House and Senate...
This change, if it sticks, has been a long time coming. In a not-so-subtle nudge to tobacco companies, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has since 1987 issued dire statistics conclusively linking cigarettes to 25 percent of America's fatal house fires: In 1997, those blazes claimed roughly 900 victims, including 140 children. Of course, while these grisly numbers may have finally prompted a response from Philip Morris, they're small potatoes when compared with the annual death toll of people who stick cigarettes in their mouths, not just in their carpets. Changing that habit is going to take...