Word: hosts
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...occasion: a parade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, honoring the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler last week. The host: Richard Girnt Butler, 71, leader of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations. The invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year-old Californian identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the next wave...
...cents. New York's Cuomo last week reached agreement with legislators on $1 billion in extra revenue, raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 21 cents to 33 cents and on an average bottle of liquor from 81 cents to $1.05, and imposing a host of license and fee increases. Even the cost of dying will triple: a death certificate goes from $5 to $15. Connecticut's Democratic Governor William O'Neill has sliced spending $150 million, and expects to close a remaining $97 million deficit mainly with sin taxes and a 15% surcharge on corporations...
...many professors have expressed reservations about how much bureaucracy the Verba Report calls for creating, and some have suggested that a stepped-up affirmative action effort could best be administered by existing structures without creating a host of new ones...
This weekend the Quad Dance Festival will feature innovative combinations of dance, theater and music in a two-hour event involving several campus organizations. As its organizers hope to expose more of the University population to dance at Harvard, the Quad Dance Festival will host performances by Citystep, Mainly Jazz, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company and other groups on the Quad lawn from 5 until 7 in the evening...
Harvard, ranked first, will host third-ranked Penn and fifth-ranked Navy for the Adams Cup tomorrow at 8:45 a.m., and the Crimson gets no rest, hosting second-ranked Northeastern next Saturday...