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...check last week. It seems that information about how the Coop is run and how decisions are made is kept at a minimum. Why doesn't the Coop send us an annual report? Unbeknownst to most students, we members do elect representatives to the Coop board of directors for one-year terms. So far, these student directors have consisted of resume-stuffing candidates who spend most of their time laboring on charity subcommittees and the like, instead of wielding a powerful voice in the Coop leadership. It's time we used our membership and our power of the vote...
...suffered from "an institutionalized unwillingness to fight." When his superiors refused to heed his reports and force Saigon to engage the Communist guerrillas, he took his case to the small cadre of resident reporters, including Sheehan and David Halberstam of the New York Times. By the time Vann's one-year tour ended, the reporters were convinced that he had jeopardized his military career by speaking out. Halberstam, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Viet Nam reporting, lionized him in his 1965 book, The Making of a Quagmire...
...Offering one-year fellowships to Black South Africans is nothing but an attempt to quiet pro-divestment complaints and make Harvard appear a bastion of altruism...
...safe, was determined to recover. First Suzuki offered a nationwide rebate of $2,000 off the Samurai's base price of about $8,000. Then nine Suzuki dealers in Ohio added an unusual offer: customers who buy a Samurai from them by next July will receive a free one-year, $1 million accident insurance policy. The incentives seem to be paying off. Samurai sales for July rose by nearly 200%, to 6,327 vehicles...
...Persistent drought has laid waste to America's agricultural midsection. Damaged grain harvests in the U.S., Canada and China will result in the sharpest ever one-year drop in world grain stocks, Worldwatch Institute reported last week...