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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main legislation would create an impartial moderator to run council meetings in place of the president...
...article appeared in the Crimson titled "God Street Who? U.C. Needs to Support Events That Have Proven Popular." The article basically discredited the events done by the Campus Life Committee, a committee of the Undergraduate Council, as too costly and not well-attended by students at Harvard College. The main focus of the article concerned Springfest, the fair held in the Mac Quad last weekend and the choice to bring God Street Wine, a relatively unknown band to Springfest at the cost of $7,500. As the co-chair of the Campus Life Committee, I feel the need to answer...
...appears the main question in this fall's City Council race is whether voter turnout will continue to slip...
Well, many Catholics, some in high places, share that particular misconception. Sheila Rauch Kennedy (an Episcopalian) decries what she claims is the annulment procedure's dishonesty in ruling that a once happy marriage never existed in the eyes of God. But for two decades, the main criticism of the American church's annulment system, at least among conservatives, has been of its generosity. U.S. Catholics in 1994 received 54,463 annulments, 75% of all those granted worldwide and more than 90% of all they requested. Some people wink and call it "Catholic divorce." Others, like former Pilot editor Philip Lawler...
Still, the threat has sharpened Ellison and hardened Oracle's martial culture even further. In the past six months the firm has stood down a Kamikaze charge from its main challenger in the database business, Informix. The Menlo Park, Calif., company blindsided Oracle with a series of hip-sounding, well-marketed database programs it claimed were faster and better at scrounging through terrabytes of data--the grunt work where databases make their fortunes. Oracle stock took a quick dip, but Ellison's slash-and-burn sales force and espresso-fueled programmers quickly unplugged the challenge. "Informix did tons of things...