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Other city employees are appointed and fired bythe city manager. But the council can exertinfluence over whom the city manager chooses tohire and dismiss...
...Wolf does not entirely dismiss thepossibility of a change in the city's charter. Shesays the strong mayor-strong city managerdiscussion crops up every few years and that nowmay be an opportune time for the debate to beresumed...
...People tend to be real scoffing and cynical about the idea of spirituality here," says Mary T. Teichert '93, president of the Catholic Students Association. "They tend to dismiss spirituality as being a substitute for real thinking...
Held said the letter was "filled with misrepresentations, distortions and outright lies" and "smacked of standard anti-Semitic fare." A former Hillel coordinating council co-chair who was quoted anonymously in Counter's letter asked the College to dismiss the director...
...PERFECT COINCIDENCE OF NEED AND ability: the Palestinians and Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi. That's why it is her face you see, her voice you hear speaking for her people, brilliantly recasting their cause as a cry for human justice. No longer can the world sum up -- and dismiss -- the Palestinians in the portrait of a stubble-bearded man wrapped in a kaffiyeh. This woman looks civilized, unthreatening, someone you'd like to invite to dinner, and she speaks with a compelling eloquence. With exquisite timing or luck or preternatural planning, she was there, this medieval-literature scholar, devoted mother, Christian...