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...should anyone go through all the work--the grueling exams, the endless papers and (God forbid) a thesis--if it's not going to get him or her a higher salary, better dates and a higher credit card limit than friends from high school who are getting straight A's at other colleges...
...Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has continued to hold out for either a neutral Germany or one belonging to both security alliances. Bush's grave concern is that the Soviets may promote unacceptable conditions. They might call for German unification without NATO membership or membership in NATO but modified to forbid the placement of any NATO nuclear weapons on German soil. The latter proposal could become a hot issue in the West German elections scheduled for December, offering a powerful campaign weapon to the opposition Social Democrats, whose calls for a nuclear- free country strike a resonant chord in both Germanys...
...Senate race that even a New York Knick could not lose. With such a handy war chest, his demurral sounds a shade less convincing than William Tecumseh Sherman's "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." Says a Bradley adviser: "If, God forbid, Dan Quayle should be President in 1992, Bill Bradley won't be locked in by a Shermanesque statement. He could have been. Bill knows what Sherman said...
Neither the Constitution nor the College makes any absolute guarantee of free speech. Like the Supreme Court, the College strives to balance conflicting individual rights. In the case of the Stars and Bars, the obligation of the College to forbid the harassment of some of its members overrides any absolute interpretation of the First Amendment...
...people, even though the Armenians would accuse us of being pro-Azerbaijani and the Azerbaijanis accused us of favoring Armenia. Someone who has not visited Nagorno-Karabakh cannot understand the situation. You mentioned Northern Ireland? The situation has been going on there for more than 20 years now. God forbid it will be the same way here...