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...said he did not know if he would heed the call. “I feel like it might be beneficial, not to stop fighting this, but if someone else were to fight it so that the administration would realize that this is a demand for transparency that hopefully won’t go away...
...dreams. Guest's characters are often exotics - dog fanciers, show folks - but despite their outr? occupations and preoccupations they are, at heart, just the rest of us, pursuing, say, a promotion or a new job or a teasing, out-of-reach lover; pretending not to care, pretending not to heed the gnawing in their vitals, but haplessly imprisoned by their hopeless dreams...
...reach out to those [lower socio-economic groups], that talent will not be developed, and America will be less of a power in the world,” Fitzsimmons said. Fitzsimmons’ talk was well received by the students who nearly filled Fong Auditorium. Several said they would heed Fitzsimmons’ call to get involved. “It gave me motivation to go back to my high school and recruit,” said Eloy Villanueva ’08. Student organizers directed students interested in helping recruit to join the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program...
...attracting people and businesses alike. The only candidate to sign a “no new taxes” pledge, she has campaigned vigorously to reduce the state income tax to five percent. The voters supported such a rollback in 2000, but a recalcitrant legislature has refused to heed their will, even while the state enjoys a budget surplus. Although he has not specifically stated that he will raise taxes, Patrick has refused to sign the “no new taxes” pledge, leaving voters to suspect that a tax hike would be a distinct possibility under...
...open society is that we are liable to find ourselves contradicted, offended, and distressed at every turn. We pay this price because we are aware of the alternative. However sincere the desire of the writers to protect the emotions of rape victims, their call is one we cannot heed. The world has yet to see the act of censorship that was not advanced as an attempt to conserve, defend, or uphold. To paraphrase Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the proper answer to posters you do not like is not fewer posters, it is more. Their article belies a further...