Word: ran
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Although the council approved the three members selected by the executive board earlier this week, a motion was later made by Rudd W. Coffey '97 to reconsider the decision because he felt he was not adequately considered for a post on the commission. Coffey ran unsuccessfully for council president in the popular elections held several weeks...
...Quad with a few hundred students in the rain while enduring an interminable delay and the self-imposed humiliation of Undergraduate Council President Rob Hyman didn't make you want to leave Spring Fest, then the pedestrian performance of the Pharcyde almost certainly did. From the moment they finally ran on stage, Imani, Booty Brown, Fatlip, and Slimkid 3 sang nothing as interesting or impressive as the two Harvard-based freestyle rap groups that opened up for them...
...sheer force of personality, Deutch has become the most well-connected spymaster since Allen Dulles ran the CIA for Dwight Eisenhower (Dulles' brother John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State). Deutch is also well on his way to becoming even more powerful than Ronald Reagan's notoriously influential spy chief, Bill Casey, who was the first director to hold Cabinet rank. When Deutch appeared reluctant to quit as Deputy Defense Secretary for the CIA job, Clinton dialed up the pressure by again upgrading it to a Cabinet post. Unlike Casey, Deutch ostensibly refrains from advocating policy with the President, only...
...city decided to seek out and fine homeowners who failed to rake leaves from the public space in front of their houses. The unraked-leaves strike force emerged this month after a winter of discontent, when the city with one of the nation's highest tax rates ran out of money and stopped providing some basic services. The streets are almost never clean (grit and cigarette butts blow up from littered gutters on K Street), only 40 of the 104 garbage trucks function, and during the winter's snowstorms some city buses made up their routes according to which streets...
...city's worst fiscal excesses--noncompetitive bids, deficit budgeting, a bloated work force whose ranks include 40,000, or 1 out of 9 adults in the District--while figuring out how to pay overdue bills and eventually refinance the district's $379 million current deficit. But the board ran into a recalcitrant Mayor Marion Barry, who was initially reluctant to make any significant cuts. In his "State of the City" address last January, Barry blamed "District-bashers" for the city's near bankruptcy. "Negative, biased publicity," he said, "has cost D.C. more jobs and destroyed more economic-development possibilities than...