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...sexual-misconduct case against Senate Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood became even graver when reports surfaced that one of two recent complaints accused him of kissing a minor in 1983, a 17-year-old who worked in his office. Packwood said he took "strong exception" to the new accusation...
...junta's friends pose a graver problem. They fear that Aristide's supporters, if not Aristide himself, will seek revenge for abuses and killings committed during the three years since the coup. There is a long tradition of vengeance when power shifts. When Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fell in 1986, crowds surged through Port-au-Prince seeking out members of the Tontons Macoutes and beating them to death. But Aristide's followers are just as afraid that weapons left in the hands of the military and its gangs of thugs will continue to be trained on them...
...logic of Congressional voting is only a symptom of a graver malady--one that has spread all the way to the Oval Office. The election mindset has become as deeply ingrained in our society as the Gallup poll. George Bush, our first exemplar of this, spent his entire four year "season of service" gearing up for the following season...
...spirited and boisterous tradition of the call of Reinhardt was overshadowed by a larger and graver call to the Harvard class of 1943: the call of World...
Williams Dean of the Faculty Suzanne Graver was not available for comment yesterday...