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...disaster. Waivers and deferments have been offered before, to students whose countries have suffered economic collapse or political crisis. Last year it reached out to students hurt by the Red River flood. All members of the University community should work to ensure Asia's economic maelstrom doesn't drown our fellow students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASIAN STUDENTS NEED UNIVERSITY SUPPORT | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

...that it would detract from Cambridge's New England character. They worry about the congestion, both pedestrian and vehicular, that could result from such a crowded block. And parishioners at the Swendenborgian Church of New Jerusalem, located at the corner of Quincy and Kirkland streets, fear Knafel would drown them in shadow. Residents are so up-in-arms over the proposal that more than 150 residents signed a petition of protest, recently presented to President Neil L. Rudenstine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Growing Pains | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

IRAQ "Let Clinton and his entourage drown in the scandal. And let us pursue the path of the great jihad for the complete lifting of the unjust sanctions." --Editorial, Al-Qadissiya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...unexpectedly strong challenge in his first presidential race in 1971, he was nearly killed when, suspiciously, a truck smashed into his car, leaving him with a permanent limp. Two years later, government agents shanghaied him from a Tokyo hotel to a ship at sea, where they planned to drown him. In 1980 the military government sentenced him to death for dissidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: A DISSIDENT HAS HIS DAY | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...Fish Drown In Mainstream. Cf. The Rainmaker. Alien was all about space's anti-style, the work of the master sci-fi craftsman Ridley Scott--a victory. Jeunet tries valiantly--exploiting Hedaya's body hair, letting bounty hunters give foot massages, thrilling to the goofy jive of outer space--but there's little definitive indication he directed the second half of the movie...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fear of Genetics Meets Cellophane and Custard | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

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