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...impetus for the letter is understandable. It mentioned two recent 'life-threatening" incidents involving abuse of alcohol. Obviously, the administration is concerned about the health and well being of its students, and we appreciate this...
Maddox said the impetus behind the ballot petition was the death of his father from smoking-related illnesses...
Indeed, the defense provided the impetus for Harvard's go-ahead touchdown. Safety Dave Pazden's interception and 25-yard return finally gave the Harvard offense good field position. Five plays later, senior Kweli Thompson's one-yard touchdown plunge gave Harvard a 24-21 edge...
...peacekeeping is impossible if there is no peace to keep. It might be said with only slight exaggeration that peacekeeping works only when it is not necessary -- in other words, when enemies have more or less agreed to stop fighting. In such situations, Blue Helmets can provide the final impetus toward peace and supervise established arrangements, as happened in Cyprus, Mozambique, Cambodia, the Sinai and elsewhere. But it cannot work in a cockpit like Bosnia, as U.N. officials themselves warned three years ago. Nevertheless, the Security Council, with the support of the U.S., imposed a mission that mixed peacekeeping with...
...also be following the Simpson case in dismay, but they are hard put to come up with any solutions. "What can you do?" asks Gerald Chaleff, past president of the L.A. County Bar Association. "Socialized lawyers? You can't bring everyone down to the lowest denominator." Perhaps the impetus for reform at the top of the heap, as well as at the bottom, will only come after cases such as O.J.'s demonstrate that too much money doesn't just subvert the justice system, it can stop it in its tracks...