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...topped by a milk chocolate model of Christ the King. Blowing out the single candle, John Paul ordered the cake distributed to orphans. He sipped boiling-hot tea and listened delightedly to an Italian choir boom out a traditional Polish birthday song, "Sto lat lat, niechaj zyje nan [100 years, 100 years, stay with...
...rioters assaults on police, the most important determinant for making arrests. Over 180 unarmed security personnel were injured in the attacks, in which the demonstrators wielded torches, iron bars and spiked clubs while shouting threats like "Beat them to death!" ("P'a hou yin hsi!" in the Chinese Min-nan dialect). The rioters even looted a police station and injured the staff there. The police, on the other hand, were forbidden to fight back. Unlike the impression conveyed in quotes by Linda Arrigo, no demonstrators were hurt...
...succeeds Nan Waterman and Common Cause founder John Gardner as third head of the organization, begun ten years...
...This is a well-deserved honor," Nan M. Laird, assistant professor of Biostatistics, said yesterday. "He [Mosteller] is sincerely interested in his work and in his students...
...lobbying focusing on the House side, where Harvard and two other universities formed a loosely organized group known as "Friends of DNA," which produces a monthly newsletter to keep approximately 75 universities on the mailing list informed of the progress of DNA legislation. The Friends of DNA also hired Nan Nixon to represent the group to legislators. Nixon later registered as an official lobbyist. Staffers described Harvard lobbying as arrogant and aggressive, but Harvard administrators said they believed their lobbying was not extraordinarily aggressive...