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...police could solve just one of the murders, it might help them solve at least some of the others. They hope that well-publicized offers of $141,000 in rewards will elicit some information. "He -or they-can't keep a secret," said Glendale Police Lieut. Harry Lebrun last week. "He has got to talk to a close friend...
Although RUS acted responsibly in voting the money to the gay organization, the way in which RUS reached this, and the other budget decisions, raises fundamental questions about RUS's representativeness. RUS members should have discussed the recommendations beforehand with their Radcliffe constitutents to elicit opinions on such potentially controversial issues as the lesbian funding. Discussion of this sort currently exists only on an informal, sporadic basis, which creates the potential for RUS considering issues with few differing opinions in mind. This is not entirely the organization's fault, for few Radcliffe women have taken the time to find...
...unusual punishment. Scenting the kill, TV camera crews laid daily siege to Lance as he left his home in the morning or his office at night. A small army of pushy reporters thrust long microphone rods into his face and asked the most impertinent questions, hoping to elicit an off-guard response. This is a drumhead trial, and few of those who are subjected to such a process escape unscathed. A print reporter who finds a rumor to be unfounded usually does not refer to it in print; but a television reporter's unverified insinuation, heard on-camera, lingers...
...Moluccan [June 20] is. I do not know why the Moluccans in Holland are unhappy. I suppose that the recent hijackings by the small band of thugs in Holland were intended in part to attract my attention, to make me curious enough to learn of their complaints and to elicit my support for their cause. However, the repulsiveness of their actions has merely served to reduce to insignificance their cause, no matter how noble it might otherwise be. It is probably unjust, but 1 am certain that a majority of us will never hear the word Moluccan without expecting...
...parietal rules elicit nostalgic chuckles from members of the Class today. "We all thought the rules were stupid but at that time we never doubted that that was the way things were--it really is ludicrous," Brody recalls. The rules weren't always strictly observed, although Brody doesn't recall any occasions when either he or any of his friends kept a woman in the dorm overnight. But, he says, "you could screw in the afternoon and that was happening a lot. We also had a car and so there was always the back seat." Trustman says his whole generation...