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According to the current theories of physics, only a black hole is sufficiently massive to exert such an attractive force...
...Kennedy School, which has a shorter tradition and less entrenched sense of mission than most schools, the dean may exert more influence, the professor says...
...gases were found to be spinning so quickly that only an unusually massive object at the galaxy's center could exert enough gravity to keep them in orbit...
...such clauses, argues White House counsel Lloyd Cutler, because "residing in publicly funded housing is a privilege, not a right" -- but political reality renders mandatory provisions impossible. So, says Cutler, "we're hoping that the majority of project tenants" who have signaled their support for Clinton's plan "will exert peer pressure" on those reluctant to go along. However the idea plays -- and it will surely be tested in court -- the Administration aims primarily to send a message. "Voluntarily signing such leases is an empowering act," says White House aide Rahm Emanuel. "It allows people to exert some control over...
...order to exert any real pressure, Harvard must server its connection to ROTC. By affirming its own ethical stand against discrimination, the University would be sending an urgent message to Washington, and to the rest of the country. Harvard could credibly use its bully pulpit to decry the military's ban on gays as nothing more than a homophobic defense of the status quo, similar to another by-gone era, when the military's ban on Black Americans was nothing more than a racist defense of another status...