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...thing, no students going to a house other than their own would have to make themselves a target of a crime by waiting for an opportunity to enter. Also, having access to any house at any time would allow students sensing themselves in a potentially dangerous situation to duck into a house for safety. Finally, students would be less likely to swipe a stranger into their own house, as they would realize that all Harvard undergraduates should be able to enter with their own cards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Universalize Key-Card Access | 11/25/1997 | See Source »

These overseas tests and humiliations are coming at a time when Clinton has been cast as a lame duck at home--spurned by his party, insulted by his opponents, dogged by scandal every day. He has never seemed so alone. All in a rush last week, the President was thwarted by congressional Democrats, who rejected his full-court press for "fast track" authority to negotiate trade deals, and embarrassed by Republicans, who refused to pay America's $926 million debt to the U.N.--at the precise moment Clinton was trying to put together a U.N.-backed coalition against Saddam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Penn's first play showed that Harvard's opponents know they can't score conventionally on Harvard. Penn tried a halfback pass, but Finn's duck wobbled incomplete into the mud of Harvard Stadium...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Show Stealing Defense | 11/16/1997 | See Source »

Facility Manager Donald Down, a.k.a. "Duck," said that some seniors who frequent the center viewed Election Day and the day-after siege of their building as "disruptive...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Election Occupies Senior Center | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

...unlike Clinton ? who, as a lame-duck second-term president can handle an environmental backlash ? his would-be successor Al Gore, who stood at Clinton's shoulder when the Utah national park was created, may have some explaining to do. And as TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson points out, he will face even more tests in the future: "In terms of environmental issues, there are lots of things that are higher on the agenda, beginning with global warming, the pivotal environmental issue he will stand or fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Loses Green Credentials | 9/9/1997 | See Source »

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