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Therefore, before collective security can work, the U.N. must work. The U.S. and other western powers need to agree to a restructuring of the Security Council to give smaller nations a louder voice. The world has changed too much to pretend that five permanent members are adequate...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: How to Prevent World War III | 11/13/1992 | See Source »

...without taking health care opportunities away from people. There are no individual administrators or standing groups, either in the University or in any of the separate schools, that work on this issue consistently. Occasionally in the past three years, consultants have visited the campus, usually peddling unattractive plans which pretend to "quality-conscious" cost containment, while actually reducing benefits or limiting access. The University's participation in the Joint Health Care Advisory Committee, created in the HUCTW Agreement, has been reluctant and unproductive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to the Harvard Community on Health Care | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...pretend to be hip to the ways of Washington," says 1992's Mr. Smith. "I'm not going to go to Washington on a high horse, or even a pony...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE RETURN OF MR. SMITH | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...advocates of the "service-first" philosophy argue that the council is just another extra-curricular, that it has a limited mandate and should not pretend otherwise...

Author: By Rodolfo J. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Does the Council Measure Up? | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

Interspersed among the songs is a series of phone conversations between Prince and an intrepid reporter named Vanessa Bartholomew, sportingly played by Cheers TV star Kirstie Alley. "Why do you pretend to be a maze?" she asks in exasperation. "I'm amazed at your beauty," Prince replies. But his real answer seems to be in the lyric of My Name Is Prince, in which he declares, "I know from righteous I know from sin/ I got two sides and they're both friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rap, Crackle And Pop | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

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