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...said Hughes, “but it was on my mind as I was shopping for classes.” This system, however, is not without its flaws. Alice R. B. Cullina ’08, another English 10a student, said that while she was glad to have a lighter load in January, she felt pressured for time because a major assignment is due in class next week. “It’s kind of stressful because we have a final paper that we have to write before we leave,” she said...
...comes first; it’s an obsession, coursing through their veins. But I’ve never been able to approach it as such. For me, it’s a constant balancing act, and I’m left feeling bad when The Crimson lands on the lighter side of the scale. Often, it’s a question of time, both my schedule and fixed deadlines...
...TIME: Couldn't you have been lighter on the opposition?not sue? LEE: No. If you don't sue, repetition of the lie [makes it credible]. It will be believed ... [Former U.S. Secretary of State] George Shultz once wrote to me about why I insist on this right of reply. I said to him, "We believe in the marketplace of ideas. Let the ideas contend, and the best ideas the public will buy." But I also said, "That assumes a large well-educated group of people as readers. Look at the marketplace of ideas in the Philippines...
...gushing reviews come after several years of negotiations in which the Pentagon has sought to pare down its larger presence on bases in Western Europe in exchange for smaller outposts, or a "lighter footprint" as one Pentagon official said, in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. The new bases have the virtue, in Washington's view, of being both more flexible and closer to current hot spots in the Middle East and Central Asia. Romanians are also, for the most part, happy to see more U.S. boots on the ground, which would not be true of U.S. allies in Western...
...June, was initially charged with a felony, which could have kept him from working in the U.S. But having paid the clerk, Nestor Estrada, a widely reported $100,000 to avoid a civil suit, Crowe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and got off with an even lighter fine: $160. Just enough for a pretty spiffy new cell phone...