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...debate last week by proposing that a section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be opened to drilling. He would permit exploration on 1.5 million acres of the 19-million-acre preserve, which could contain between 600 million and 9 billion bbl. of crude. Conservationists contend that drilling would disturb the region's delicate ecosystem for little reason: a strike, they claim, would add just 4% to U.S. oil reserves. Canada also objects to drilling, for fear that caribou migration patterns would be disrupted. Hodel observed that caribou populations in Prudhoe Bay, 100 miles to the west, are three times...
Mithchell A. Orenstein '89, said that he told Epps before the speech that SASC did not plan to disturb the event. Orenstein said he did not think that statement was a lie because the blockade did not necessarily have to disturb the speech...
...think the coach likes us too much because we disturb the players," says clarinetist Jennifer Brooks. "But without us, why go to the game at all? People come to the games to see the band...
LEGEND has it that Eugene O'Neill's wife, Carlotta, was told never to disturb her husband at work and to leave his meals on a tray outside the door. Once, seeing three days' worth of food still sitting untouched, she anxiously opened the door to find Gene lying prostrate on the floor, weeping. He had just finished writing Long Day's Journey Into Night, the work in which he purged the ghost of his own family memories. The Lowell House production of O'Neill's masterpiece is a faithful and worthwhile rendering of that exquisite agony...
...only in fashion but in art and architecture." Lacroix's charter was to design two collections a year, according to his impulse and vision. No strings were attached, least of all purse strings. His first sketches to the millinery atelier caused shock and consternation. "Sometimes it is necessary to disturb people in order to push forward," he observes. Since he refines his ideas slowly and deliberately, most of today's headliners have antecedents in earlier collections...