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This year, the Crimson hoped to play that brand of hockey from the outset...
Appealing for international aid to help rebuild his ravaged country, Museveni pledged at the outset to maintain Uganda's policy of nonalignment with the super powers and to improve the country's economic development by encouraging a mix of state and private enterprises. The new President also promised a return to parliamentary democracy and a rejection of tribal partisanship. He emphasized that his main goal was to restore respect for human rights, which have been openly abused in Uganda during the past 20 years. Museveni warned that those responsible for past atrocities would be punished...
Schiller's replacement as producerdirector was Marvin Chomsky (Holocaust), who took over at the outset of seven months of filming in the Soviet Union. Problems cropped up almost immediately. First the production's entire supply of wigs was lost for 3 1/2 weeks. The crew found Soviet accommodations to be spartan, transportation unreliable and toilet paper rough. "I had a miserable time," says Omar Sharif, who plays one of Peter's advisers. Bored with meals of beet-root salads, chicken and potatoes, Sharif took a trip to Paris and brought back cans of tuna, which he ate at night alone...
...during the performance of his research contract. That possibility should have been identified by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and discussed at the time he disclosed the contract because of the importance of determining institutional involvement. I might add that the Faculty's policies (as described at the outset of this report) in respect to contracts that are purely individual do not prohibit the contract terms referred to above...
...outset of yesterday's meeting, Ozment argued against excluding faculty from the book's editorial policy-making. Describing the recent dispute over the guide's editorial freedom as an aberration, Ozment said professors and students have cooperated effectively on the book throughout its history...