Word: leste
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Unfortunately, not every event will ring as true as those just mentioned. The Junior Parents Weekend Committee can't be expected to set up a perfect simulation. Thus you will want to forewarn your parents before they attend the following affairs--lest they falsely interpret the nature of the undergraduate experience...
...know (lest the howls of outrage rise) that some people cannot, and should not, imbibe alcohol. People with alcoholism in the family, devout Baptists and pious Muslims, diabetics and schizophrenics and several of my more, um, belligerent friends--for these folks and others, my solution to the Harvard blues is out of bounds. And of course, of course it isn't a good idea to be a blithering idiot and drink yourself into a stupor and end up at UHS, any more than it's a good idea to go skinny-dipping in shark-infested waters or eat those...
...private institutions, suspicious of the spendthrift habits, mammoth bank accounts and princely villas that have become trademarks of nouveau riche Russians abroad, are beginning to close their doors and their borders to some of the richest. And many powerful Russian tycoons must think twice before boarding an outbound flight lest they share the fate of Pavel Borodin, the erstwhile Kremlin property manager and multimillionaire who was arrested last month in New York on an extradition request from Switzerland alleging involvement in money laundering...
...graduate boards of the clubs are wary of litigation, "lest any of those alumni officers lose every penny they have," says Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, who has spoken out harshly against the clubs...
...REALITY CHECK: Greenspan, of course, has the luxury of living in the economists' world provided by the budget projections of Clinton's Office of Management and Budget, a world of consistent spending and political discipline. A world that does not exist in Washington. And lest the assembled senators start scouring Greenspan's bank statements for big checks marked "GWB," the Fed chairman closed his prepared remarks with a big fat disclaimer and smacked the ball back into the politicians' court...