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...very important to acknowledge this tragedy, lest we forget," he said. "And I want to underscore that it should never happen again...
Apparently, the University has been fit to tie itself to Titanic-mania lest it miss out on any extra publicity that might be gleaned from advertising the fact that Harvard people drowned too. Clicking on the "Titanic" category reveals surprisingly little information, but they sink to such depths at to capitalize that revoltingly standard image of Jack clutching Rose and staring into the distance. The exhibit reveals not only the commonly known Widener-Titanic connection, but also the lesser known Straus-Titanic link...
When I went to get some soda this past week, I realized that Annenberg's interest in my well-being had spread to new areas. Sitting atop the dispenser, a sign admonished me not to fill any containers with soda for later consumption. Lest I suppose that Annenberg was being miserly, the sign insisted that this measure was enacted for health reasons...
Predictably, nothing happened until early March, when something very big happened. The Republicans came to the extraordinary realization that the tobacco industry could be sacrificed--had to be--lest the Clinton Administration hammer them on yet another populist issue. It was becoming clear to the G.O.P. that voters everywhere were increasingly anti-tobacco. Don Nickles, the Senate's second-ranking Republican, called a group of G.O.P. Senators into his office and forced a decision. A single committee would now handle the issue and produce a bill. It was an onerous assignment with a high risk of failure. But when...
...more frail and shambling, his eyes glazed and his speech slurred. He rules like a czar--from on high, without much attention to detail, and by decree. Like Brezhnev, Yeltsin has no intention of stepping down, and the people around him will do anything to keep him in power, lest they lose their own. Last week they launched what may be their campaign for re-election in 2000 by shoving aside the most potent rivals to the President...