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...June 17, 1972, five days after he was sworn in, the Watergate break-in was discovered and the World War II veteran began to spending the bulk of his time dealing with a morass of emerging cover...
...remind us why we're here, rather than spend every moment fund-raising. Faculty members need to attend monthly Faculty meetings to become involved in governance. Although Harvard is run by a Corporation, it is a place of learning at heart. That fact, however, often becomes lost in the morass of daily life...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Where you stood on the news that Liggett Group decided to settle lawsuits with 22 states by agreeing to admit that cigarette smoking is addictive depended very much on where in the morass of tobacco litigation you currently sat. States Attorneys General pointed to the fact that the North Carolina-based maker of Chesterfield, Lark and L&M cigarettes agreed to up-front payments of about $25 million, plus 2.5 percent of its pretax profits over the next 25 years, as evidence that tobacco companies are in some way responsible for the health-care costs states are suing...
...Daniel Ortega's political comeback. Aleman is already making plans to form a national government, formed of all political forces in the country. Ortega is not conceding defeat, while Sandinista campaign chairman Alvaro Fiallos said that it was premature for Aleman to claim victory. The elections themselves were a morass of inefficient bureaucracy, hampered by delays in ballot delivery, tardy officials and power outages. Lines formed before dawn on Sunday, and many voters resolutely waited for two or three hours to cast their ballots. In spite of the hitches, outgoing President Violeta Chamorro called the election a "beautiful process." "This...
...colorless lawyer who has never ingratiated himself within the industry, could be facing the same fate himself. By now, Sony Pictures Entertainment has turned into an executive torture chamber, with an extraordinary string of firings in its recent past as the studio has struggled to extricate itself from a morass of big budgets, bad box office and fratricidal infighting...