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...view of most experts, De la Madrid will have to maintain a policy of austerity for anywhere from one to four years. His decision to crack down on corruption is designed to avoid the social explosion that might loom as living standards drop further. De la Madrid's aim is to show that belt-tightening will affect the rich as well as the poor. "What's fair is fair," explains a P.R.I, 'politician. "We cannot have fat-cat officials taking advantage of these conditions to feather their own nests." De la Madrid has also made clear that...
THINGS HAPPEN, sometimes, that make the most earnest student long to cancel her higher intellectual functions. When the seasonal barrage of exams loom, and the voracious maw of the terminal room threatens, high art loses its appeal. Now is the time for Airplane...
...disappointing loss drops Harvard's record to 3-3 (1-2 in the level) while Cornell raises its mark to (13-10 in the iveis) Harvard's two league losses in the young season loom large as both Princeton and Cornell have yet to lose an Ivy contest...
...decisions by the new committees on Housing and College Life to shut their doors to interested observers and reporters violate the principles of open, democratic government. They close students off from the issues that most directly concern them and that seem certain to loom as major in the coming months. Proposals to change policies on storage, renovations, House assignments and off-campus living all would ostensibly originate in the closed Committee on Housing, for instance...
...could win the chairmanship, but then again, anti-gay campus sentiment and the new council members' apparent fixation on procedural questions could work against him. Should his election he seen as a clear impossibility by the time the council meets to choose its leaders Sunday night, two possible scenarios loom...