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...list of grievances against the Ivy Council. Accusing the Ivy Council of wasting time at its conferences and complaining that it should provide funding for delegates' travel expenses, students voted to leave the group at the end of the year if these issues are not addressed. This prudent move should give the Ivy Council ample opportunity to reform. If it cannot, then the council's money would be better spent elsewhere...
...Cuban-American terrorist mafia." The official daily Granma charged that Cuban exiles had committed widespread electoral fraud, and demanded new elections in Florida to prove that it was a democracy rather than "a banana republic." (The Cuban leader may, of course, want to be a bit more prudent about demanding free and fair elections lest his people start getting ideas...
...Cuban-American terrorist mafia." The official daily Granma charged that Cuban exiles had committed widespread electoral fraud, and demanded new elections in Florida to prove that it was a democracy rather than "a banana republic." (The Cuban leader may, of course, want to be a bit more prudent about demanding free and fair elections lest his people start getting ideas...
...Undergraduate Council made the prudent decision Oct. 29 to swallow its pride and amend the failed anti-homophobia grant bill it passed last March. In its original form, the bill provided a $1,000 grant to a student group or group of students who came up with the best plan to fight homophobia at Harvard. By the Oct. 29 meeting, however, no applications had been received to date. As amended, the grant offer will terminate at the end of November unless applications are given to the council beforehand...
...face, Bush's realism might seem a more prudent application of U.S. resources than Gore's crusading interventionism. But the messiness of the global scene requires active, consistent American leadership--which is impossible if the U.S. insists simply on staying at home. In that sense, Gore's assertive policy appears more appropriate in the current environment, in which U.S. security faces no grave challenges, but regional flare-ups can still become destabilizing conflagrations. It's not surprising that Bush has struggled to remain consistent. He says stability in "our own hemisphere" would be among his four top foreign policy priorities...