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...hoped for, and it hadn't been for years. She was completely dependent on him, and this had become a burden. He found he couldn't confide in her. Lisa's recent arrival in Washington had brought this to the fore, just when Foster needed someone to lean...
Lewis said the limited options he was given would probably cause him to lean more towards vetoing legislation rather than giving it a lukewarm endorsement...
...officials insist that time will transform the raw recruits into an effective authority. Now they lean heavily on 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, but they will soon be expected to step in for the entire contingent--unless the Security Council approves Preval's urgent request to retain 1,800 for another six months. Even though the peacekeepers may serve only as a psychological deterrent, the Americans have been vital to U.N. credibility. But at the very moment when the country's insecurity is growing, the U.S. is leaving. A senior American diplomat familiar with Haiti says, "Of course...
...didn't know this at all. I'm undecided," Robert J. Ruberton '97 said, adding that he would want more information. "I would have to lean toward keeping it the way it is. I don't think I like the idea of every Harvard student having access to the House...
Whether life would inevitably arise from those building blocks is still an open question. With only one example, it is impossible to say whether life on Earth was a fluke or a foregone conclusion. But most biologists cautiously lean toward the latter. Life on this planet emerged surprisingly quickly--as early as a few hundred million years after Earth formed. At the time, the planet was intensely volcanic, with the occasional leftover asteroid screaming in every few million years--yet primitive life forms persisted and flourished...