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...Knowles can't find the 10 minutes to meet with Raza and La O representatives, rallies, protests and sit-ins could very well follow. If his excuses persist, he will have spent more time telling people he doesn't have the time to speak with La O and Raza than it would actually take to talk with them. Fernandez has sent a second letter to Knowles, again expressing the desire to meet. If the dean again responds negatively, Fernandez said, "We'll have to do something else. We don't want to get caught up in sending letters back...
...also true that the candidates persist in being evasive about questionable episodes in their past. In Bush's case, it is what he knew as Ronald Reagan's Vice President about the Iran-contra scandal. His continued claim that he was "out of the loop" or "excluded from key meetings" when this murky, subterranean scheme was being hatched in the upper echelons of the Reagan Administration has been constantly challenged, notably by a 1987 memo dictated to an aide by former Secretary of State George Shultz...
Founded as a wartime improvisation in 1943, when the military had taken most of the male ballplayers and thereby virtually wiped out the minor leagues, the women's circuit managed to persist for 11 seasons. Its initial appeal was a combination of the freaky (Hey, Herb, you think maybe they chew tobacco too?) and the sexy (You should see them little skirts fly up when they slide!). But there were a lot of frustrated tomboys out there who loved the game and were good at it, and who were willing to brave male haw-hawing (and genteel feminine disapproval...
Those same skills served him well as Aquino's crisis manager, but questions persist about whether Ramos has what it takes to move beyond mere survival to inspired leadership. As armed forces Chief of Staff, he correctly assessed the lengthy insurgency by the communist New People's Army as a political, rather than military, problem rooted in the rural poverty that stifles 70% of the population. But Ramos has yet to show that he can mobilize resources to relieve the country's misery on a scale that will make a difference...
...extremes persist at Harvard. Students "either move in together or 'hook up' for a weekend," says Fishman. "You don't see many people going out for a semester...