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...treatment of the issue over the past few years, the shelter shouldn't count on MIT's civic concern. The City Council recognized that this was ludicrous and offered to lease the streets to MIT instead. MIT has refused, and tomorrow city officials and the university will meet to hammer out a final deal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Homeless Shelter | 2/24/1993 | See Source »

Second year student Darryl D. Chiang, co-chair of the Asian-American Law Students Association, said the silent vigil was "really meant to hammer home to the Faculty Appointments Committee our concerns...[so] they know their actions are being watched...

Author: By Evan J. Eason, | Title: Law School Will Hire Woman Prof | 2/6/1993 | See Source »

...taste for communal enterprise." During the campaign, that attention to bridge building brought many lapsed Democratic foreign policy heavies like Jeane Kirkpatrick and Paul Nitze back into the fold and helped accomplish the goal, as Berger put it, of "keeping foreign policy off the front pages," so Clinton could hammer away on domestic issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sandy Berger: An Instinct for The Important | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...made the turnaround from nail to hammer. Sullivan wants to do that, badly. So what kind of advice does O'Brien have for his cross-town counterpart...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Breaking Training | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...level of violence precedes the slaying. Mark Martone was 16 when he shot his father to death. "This was not a routine beating," he recalls. His father had slammed his head against a radiator, kicked him in the ribs and struck him on the skull with a hammer. As he sat in jail the night of the murder, Mark was still terrified. "Oh, God," he said to himself, "what am I doing here! Dad's going to kill me!" Mark was convicted of homicide as a juvenile but was sentenced to six months probation. Like others who have suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Kids Kill Abusive Parents | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

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