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...extra appropriations to boot--by securing a General Accounting Office (GAO) report saying Carter's termination of Clinch River was "substantially inconsistent" with the project's original long-term authorization. In other words, as Sen. James McClure (R-Idaho) put it: the Clinch River appropriation is "in effect, self-authorizing;" it needed to be killed with a specific bill, not just left out of a budget as Carter had done. The senators had seen the President's plan as akin to Nixon's impoundment of funds and that view had prevailed...
Because students' tuition fees are used to pay for something which could have been paid for by endowment funds, (thus freeing endowment funds to buy stock in South African-affiliated companies), the University is in effect using students' tuition fees to invest in these South Africa affiliated companies...
...mournful, barely audible line-readings followed by maniacal, ear-shattering ranting and ravings. Myers fails to stress the other side of the emperor--the cool, calculating, dispassionate side. After a while, the audience feels like it is on a roller-coaster--one gets the stop-and-start effect, but it's a little difficult to enjoy the scenery. He does show potential in his final soliloquy, as well as in the last moments of the play when he risks his health by falling several feet from a platform, blood dripping from numerous bodily wounds, contemplating the certainty of death with...
Indeed, Gardner is at his best when he's telling a story. At one point in On Moral Fictionhe leaves the aesthetic debate for a moment and begins a simple fable, to illustrate a point. The effect startles; we suddenly realize what Gardner could be doing all this time--telling stories, like Grendel...
Fixell's complaint was reiterated by Brooks P. Nemark '80 who does not think the Core will have a positive effect on education at Harvard...