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...receive their diplomas on time. The Extension School is also offering tuition-free, AP-level courses to displaced high school students who relocated to the Boston area. Katrina’s curse should not follow any student through the coming years, as it would if they were forced to forgo education this fall...
...must remain faithful to the established principles of the scientific method and not allow theological beliefs and dogma to interfere." PEDRO CHEQUER, director of the Brazilian government's AIDS program, announcing that it would forgo $40 million in American support by refusing to comply with a condition that all recipients of U.S. AIDS funding condemn prostitution...
...very short span. But most middle-class Pakistanis are left with only ruined hopes. In the wake of rising inflation, a lackluster job market and stagnant salaries, a salaried worker can never think of buying an apartment or a modest house in his lifetime. Millions will have to forgo that dream. The gap between rich and poor is reaching dangerous proportions. It is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. The government has simply not awakened to the plight of its people. Mehmood Aziz Karachi...
...11”—maybe six feet on a good day with inch-thick heels. He also runs the most professional, well-organized office I’ve ever seen. And, surprisingly, he’s always at the capitol. Apparently he chose to forgo his usual four daily hours of acting lessons when he was elected...
...when their party controlled the Senate and Bill Clinton was preparing to fill a vacancy on the court, he called Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to get his views on who might make a suitable choice. Hatch urged Clinton to forgo one of his options, former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, who Hatch thought would prove too hard to get confirmed. Instead Hatch promoted two others: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was eventually approved, and Stephen Breyer, who was appointed a year later. What conservatives tend to remember about that episode is that both Justices...