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...been trying to stress all week that we cannot overlook Union," Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "They are a much improved team. They played a tough game against Clarkson and tied UMass-Lowell, two good teams. It would be a mistake pointing everything...
Like a slowly developing photo, however, the outlines of a clearer identity are beginning to emerge. So strong is the presence of Asian Americans on the West Coast that politics can no longer afford to overlook them. Michael Woo, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for mayor of Los Angeles this year, demonstrated the fund-raising resources of prospering Asians by drumming up campaign contributions across the country. While Woo's defeat was a blow to morale, Asians can boast three members of Congress from California: U.S. Representatives Robert Matsui from Sacramento, Norman Mineta from San Jose and Jay Kim from Diamond...
This fact makes the staff's effort to portray all opposition to the treaty as some crazy delusion of Ross Perot inaccurate and slightly offensive. Real people will lose their jobs because of this treaty. The staff seems to overlook that. One hopes that President Clinton and others will consider these job losses more important than does The Crimson, and see to it that attempts are made to retrain American workers who lose their jobs under the pact...
Ireassured myself with the knowledge that there was a definite female perspective in the magazine, a perspective which critics tended to overlook entirely. I could see how people could get offended by some of the views presented in the first issue. Some of the views offended me, and I worked on the issue! Just as offending, however, was that those offended often disregarded the female perspective that was included...
...wrong he was. When the story broke last week -- on the front page of the New York Times under the headline Scientist Clones Human Embryos, And Creates an Ethical Challenge -- everybody focused on the one thing the scientists seemed willing to overlook: the cells Hall had manipulated came not from plants or pigs or rabbits or cows, but from human beings...