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...order for the MCAD to be able to rule in the case, the quasi-governmental body must establish that it has jurisdiction, which is dependent on the clubs being found to be a significant part of Harvard life. After the formal break from the clubs, the University cut off their Centrex service, steam heat, police service, and most recently, made the Harvard-owned portion of the Fly Club Garden more accessible to non-club members. With the formal ties nearly all severed, Schkolnick's case may prove difficult...
...Herbert Alexander of the University of Southern California, would like to see the state caps eliminated. "They're ridiculously low," he says, "and they lead to subterfuge." All too often, in fact, the result is an amoral minuet in which the end (the White House) justifies all sorts of quasi-legal chicanery. "There is retail chiseling, like renting a car in Massachusetts and driving it to New Hampshire," explains a top Republican campaign staffer. "And then there is wholesale blowing off of the limits -- spend now and pay the fine later...
...hospital will use two floors of the old building as "quasi-dormitory space" for parents of Intensive Care patients who are too sick to have their parents sleep in their rooms, Peck said...
...church outlawed polygamy in 1890, and its renegade status now attracts the unstable as well as true believers. Fueled by the perceived injustice of Singer's death, his increasingly fanatic kin nurtured quasi- religious fantasies. As the ninth anniversary of Singer's death approached, either Vickie Singer, 44, or Addam Swapp, 27, had a vision that John's resurrection would lead to the Second Coming of Christ...
Will Africa, fabulously rich in natural resources, ever end the cycle of war, disease and overpopulation that helps to keep it poor and famished? Most African governments, including those much less radical than Ethiopia, continue to be wedded to quasi-socialist, postcolonial economic policies that reduce agricultural productivity, even as populations soar and create a voracious demand for more food. "In contemporary Africa, both rural starvation and rising levels of urban employment are the outcome of a set of agricultural policies designed to subsidize the cost of living of urban consumers at the expense of rural producers," says Michael Lofchie...