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Four years ago, people would queue up in front of Legal Sea Foods for hours to grab a quick, cheap fish dinner in a crowded room with 100 or so other noisy, hungry people...
...UNITED STATES's ineffectual actions during a month and a half of crises in Cyprus indicate that, while Kissinger is able to deal with situations in which he is able to grab the initiative, he may be as ineffectual as anyone else once a situation degenerates beyond a certain point...
...European capital. The three-story facades of workers' houses are depressing in their black-sooted brick, and the smoke emanating from the stack of a nearby factory leaves an acrid smell in the air. Leaflets are being passed out on the street, and, as you lean over to grab one...someone knocks a copy of "Beyond the Melting Pot" off a shelf above you, it catches you on the shoulder, and you are back again, with nothing other than your course catalogue in your hands...
...after a headline reading, "Pusey, MTA Officials Boost Hopes/For Purchase of Bennett St. Yards," appeared in The Crimson, an outcry erupted from Cambridge City officials and residents. Former City Councilor Daniel J. Hayes, blasting Harvard's "land-grab plan," called on the city council to have the land declared an open blighted area under the Urban Renewal Act and to purchase it to ensure that Harvard could...
...which was peeved because the Viet Cong were not asked to attend). The stated purpose of the Caracas meeting seems unremarkable enough: to update ocean law to accommodate advancing technology. But what has really drawn delegates from all over the world to Caracas is the biggest land (or water) grab in history...