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JOHN ROWLAND (R., CONN.) The millions spent on his PSAs helped prompt a state law banning such ads by candidates within five months of an election. His recent ubiquitous mass-transit campaign ("Your Ride's Here") irked critics who recall that in his early years in office Rowland advocated cutbacks in rail services...
Geoffrey Starks ’02, a Social Studies concentrator who won the prize for his research on reparations for blacks, said he hopes his thesis will prompt discussion...
...That will likely prompt a huge mobilization of centrist opinion of the left and right to negate that extremist sentiment by giving Chirac a huge margin of victory in the second round. But that won't reverse the fact that France has dispensed with a taboo here: They've got a neo-fascist into the second round of a presidential campaign, because enough French people are buying his message of law and order through curbing immigration...
...argument that the presence and development of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq makes America’s next military actions imminent. While this should serve as a concern to our military and should be monitored, the mere presence of such weapons should not be reason enough to prompt, justify a military strike. In July 2001, Bush refused to sign an international agreement designed to enforce a ban on biological weapons that had been in existence since 1972. This action alone makes any claims of concern over biological weapons by the president appear hypocritical and foolish. American citizens cannot...
...keep in mind that his Corporation membership too should prompt questions. One wonders whom else they considered for the slot: it seems like settling on Rubin was all too easy. Did they even discuss anyone else? Thanks to the traditionally zipped lips, I have no idea; but I suspect not. They’d been trying to get him since he left Treasury in 1997, according to comments he made in The Crimson. He’d played hard-to-get earlier, but now, with the bait of working with Summers again on the end of their fishing line...