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...Nevertheless, Tanaka is now discovering that winning over the voters was the easy part. His pero-pero-ing of the public is still going well: housewives continue to adore him and young people think his brashness is kakkoii, or cool. His guri-guri-ing of the political establishment, however, is proving to be a more strenuous task than an assignation with Mrs. U at the Hyatt. The ldp hacks in Nagano have overruled his plan to stop dam construction and rammed through their own budget. (Even though Tanaka is Governor, they still hold the majority power in the prefectural legislature...
...coalition with a smaller nationalist party, Euskal Askatasuna, the PNV won 33 of the 75 seats in the Basque parliament, five short of a majority, but nevertheless one more than the combined total of the Popular Party and the Socialists. Today, Mayor Oreja is a regional opposition leader, while Ibarretxe bathes in the glow of a 6% boost in support for his leadership...
Harvard has a 20 billion dollar endowment. I'm not saying that students should sit-in for cable. I'm not saying we deserve cable more than University workers deserve $10.25 an hour. Nevertheless, Harvard has an obligation to its students. The College provides shelter and food to all. Everyone has access to a restroom, either public or private. Yet, cable is either limited or unavailable...
Though Riegel did not go home with a statue after last Friday night’s awards presentation in New York City, the former Pforzheimer House resident is nevertheless proud of her work on “All My Children,” which won four awards after receiving nominations in 21 categories...
...Nevertheless, my most serious concerns with the fund drive are not those that you address in the letter, but simply the attitude that surrounds giving to the Senior Gift. The representative from Senior Gift who came to my room to solicit us for money couldn't have been less convincing about why we should donate. When my roommates and I politely declined to participate, he wanted a reason. And when we gave him a few, he proceeded to record our refusal and our reasons on his clipboard. I felt like we were being observed in a mental hospital: "Subjects just...