Word: primed
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Unlike the last major renovation of the House system, renovation of the first-year dorms began after ADA had been passed--and the Yard solution is a prime example of how FAS must compromise competing concerns of cost, students' needs and historic preservation...
...wonder that the Senate's perfunctory debate on the test-ban treaty included a moment in which Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, offered an imitation of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in conversation with Clinton and signing off with "give Monica my regards." Washington may be the one place in America where people still talk about Lewinsky. It was also no wonder that Clinton was in a genuinely vengeful mood after the vote when he accused Republicans of "reckless partisanship...
Military coups used to be messy affairs, rife with panic and barricades and bloodshed. After the overthrow of the democratically elected government in Pakistan last week, there was cheering. In the span of 48 hours, army chief General Pervez Musharraf detained Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sacked the Cabinet, suspended Parliament and the constitution, and imposed virtual martial law. Yet most Pakistanis barely shrugged. Shops remained open. Telephone service was restored. Children went to school. In Sharif's hometown of Lahore, people danced in the streets and distributed candies to celebrate the coup. "We don't want democracy," said Mohammed Tariq...
...Crimson made the bold and expensive decision to distribute the paper free to all undergraduates. In prior years, the paper was door-dropped daily to all students with paid subscriptions. By attempting to freely distribute the paper for the past three years, The Crimson has truly become the prime organ of information dissemination at Harvard. And The Crimson is still unique among campus newspapers in this respect...
...died in what it called a strike on an arms depot, Western reporters inside Grozny reported seeing scores of broken bodies strewn across the marketplace and the corpses of a large number of women and babies at the maternity home. The U.S. expressed concern over the civilian casualties, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held tense talks on the crisis at a meeting on aid with European Union leaders in Finland Friday ? the E.U. urged Moscow to halt its offensive and negotiate, but Putin stuck to his guns. Hardly surprising, since the Chechnya campaign is the neophyte prime minister?s prime...