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Bhargava said one of her goals was "to increase our political voice on campus to heighten awareness of SAA as an ethnic organization" via stronger relations with the administration and other campus groups...
...scrambling atop a tank outside the besieged White House. These days Yeltsin appears increasingly lugubrious; the spring is missing from his step when he shuffles down the long red carpet at the Kremlin, and there are embarrassing pauses when he answers off-the-cuff questions. These subtle signs only heighten the sense, already gaining credence in Moscow from Yeltsin's political struggles, that the President is slipping...
Replacing dressing-for-success with dressing-for-sex is no leap forward. Men don't wear tight pants to get a promotion or a new client. By contrast, women lighten, heighten, straighten, curl, iron and bleach their hair. Unwanted hair is ripped out by its roots with hot wax, shaved, electrolyted and depilated. Bound feet may never have caught on here, but high heels that force the entire body weight to rest on the tip of the big toe are a cause of daily anguish...
...third part of Epps' plan--a trainingsession for Harvard police--is intended to assesspolice leadership and to heighten sensitivitytoward racial issues, Epps said...
Glennie relates to her battery of instruments through her sense of touch; to heighten her sensitivity to vibrations, she likes to perform barefoot. She conceives of her concerts in terms of the play of colors and emotions. During rehearsal, she will station an adviser in the hall to help her gauge dynamic levels, but otherwise her concessions to deafness are few. "I don't think in terms of loud and soft," says Glennie. "Instead I think of sounds as thin or fat, strong or weak. The amount of sounds you can create with just one cymbal are infinite...