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Weld, in contrast, lacks a proven record of successful administrative ability and has never served in elected office. The slickness of his campaign, the rehearsed political-ese in which he speaks, and his past associations with arch-conservatives all lend suspicion to both the genuineness of his newly acquired moderate positions and his ability to effect the changes necessary in Massachusetts...
...HARVARD officials don't want to lend University space to film-processing ads and credit card applications, some restrictions on commercial advertising might be in order. And if the campus becomes too cluttered with signs, Harvard could even restrict the use of campus postering sites to Harvard students...
Kath Weston, an assistant professor of anthropology at Arizona State University, said the biggest challenge for scholars today is to recast theoretical work, so that people who are not professors can understand it. Although theoretical work helps to lend Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Studies legitimacy in academic circles, Weston said scholars must try to reach non-academics if they hope to agitate the public and help spark grassroots political change...
...reduce mortality rates and poverty among children and to improve access to immunizations and education. For once, this was more than a political lullaby of soothing promises: the very existence of the extraordinary summit held out hope to those who have fought to make children's voices heard. To lend support, more than a million people held 2,600 candlelight vigils earlier in the week -- in South Korea's Buddhist monasteries, in London's St. Paul's Cathedral, in Ethiopia's refugee camps, around Paris' Eiffel Tower, in 700 villages in Bangladesh...
...long the S&L was locked into a constant seesaw battle with regulators. Says a former Silverado executive: "They began playing musical chairs with their auditors, and all kinds of things were going on between the federal regulators and management because of the dubious appraisals on property. Silverado would lend a developer $10 million, plus the money he needed to pay the interest on the loan, and then when the developer came back in a year after repaying nothing, they would roll the whole loan over and give him more money on top to pay new fees and interest. When...