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According to Alethia de Leon, president of the Mexican Student Association (MSA) at MIT, organizing an event as large as this one is difficult at the beginning of the school year. While planning began in May and continued over the summer, the event was still somewhat disorganized and did not go as smoothly as hoped...
...sort of ashamed of the problem we had with the food," de Leon says. "We planned for 1,500 people, and would have had food for that many if two restaurants had shown...
...Leon adds that while the event is organized by students from four universities, most of the burden falls on the Mexican association of the host school. The event moves from school to school each year, and was held at BU last year...
...Starr's report, though lacking the balance of Watergate independent counsel Leon Jaworski's effort 24 years ago, does one thing quite clearly: it offers a portrayal of a President who seems cunning but emotionally vacant, a man wasting his talents and powers on an empty affair with a woman who was in many ways still a child. Public revulsion may yet drive Clinton from office--not because he has been proved a Nixonian crook but because he has been proved an X-rated cartoon...
TIME contributor Leon Jaroff has long been a star to his colleagues and readers. We're therefore pleased to announce that he is being officially recognized as a celestial object. On Aug. 8 the International Astronomical Union voted to change the name of the asteroid previously known as 1992WY4 to the 7829 Jaroff. Eleanor Helin, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who discovered the asteroid in 1992, recommended the name to honor Jaroff's "well-researched, insightful articles and essays on scientific subjects" and his efforts to "draw attention to the issue of NEOs [near earth...