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...conference call with two dozen reporters yesterday afternoon, Summers sought to quash speculation that Corporation members had forced him to resign. “It was my decision,” he said...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SUMMERS RESIGNS: SHORTEST TERM SINCE CIVIL WAR; BOK WILL BE INTERIM CHIEF | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

...Coca-Cola Company has become mired in controversy lately over its alleged attempts to use violence to quash Colombian workers’ efforts to unionize...

Author: By Benjamin L. Weintraub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Labor Activists Plan To Target Coke Ties | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...outrage of this student was for me a call to arms. No longer will I allow my idealistic image of Harvard to quash the truth that is burning inside me: most of you––you meaning those who are not me––are not very smart. In fact, you are embarrassingly unintelligent, and you sully the name of this would-be-great institution...

Author: By Paul R. Katz | Title: A Big Disappointment | 1/31/2006 | See Source »

...program, paid for by the other parties to the talks. China supports North Korea's position and wishes the U.S. would just give in. After all, the U.S. in 1994 had promised to build a nearly identical light-water reactor for North Korea as part of a deal to quash the country's nuclear weapons program. That deal unraveled in 2002. Today, President Hu would be glad for any type of agreement. He has presented his country as capable of brokering a difficult agreement on its home turf, so he'll look bad if the talks fail. Plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China's Not Backing Bush on Iran | 9/15/2005 | See Source »

Then came His Honor's delayed pronouncement upon Darrow's motion to quash. Mr. Stewart had apologized to Mr. Hays and the courtroom tension had lowered, but when Defense-Counsel Malone heard the quasher denied he rightly forecast: "This is going to be a scrap from now on; a knock-down and drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

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