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...with a human face" of Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubcek, which was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968. The state, according to the document, should provide "material and juridical conditions for the exercise of constitutional freedoms (freedom of speech, the press, conscience, assembly, meetings, street processions and demonstrations, etc.). And firmer guarantees of personal rights, such as the inviolability of the person and the home, and privacy of correspondence and telephone conversations." Encouraging as such language may be, most of those rights are already enshrined in the Soviet constitution. By mentioning them in the theses, the party is admitting that...
...endeavor to raise the Phillips Brooks House to a firmer financial standing, we have come to depend on our thousand volunteers and our 12,000 PBH alumnae first. However, Harvard's assistance in this effort has been essential every step of the way. Van L. Truong '89 President, PBHA
Despite several coup attempts and continuing political uncertainty, Aquino remains ensconced in Malacanang Palace and has developed a firmer grip on power. Yet her supporters are not convinced that the President will be able to correct long-standing social inequities or steer the Philippines out of moral drift. "Merely staying in power without changing anything is retrogression in itself," Historian Renato Constantino recently wrote in the Philippine Daily Globe. "Personal success is not synonymous with national success...
...sometimes even a gain. Patti O'Brien, 34, an editor in New York City who participates in triathlons, has reduced her body fat from 17% to about 11% over the past 18 months; she now weighs 132 lbs., only 3 lbs. less than before. Still, she does have a firmer, slimmer body. Says a jubilant O'Brien: "My clothing size has dropped from a tight ten to an easy eight...
...years, and all the experiences and joys," she recalls, a wistful tone creeping into her honeyed Southern accent. "This is a time now when, you know, I have to really come to that . . ." She trails off for a second, unable to utter the word "decision," then sets a firmer, more businesslike course. "It's a situation where the public responsibility and private obligations are facing...