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...appointment of Judith H. Kidd as assistant dean for public service comes as a shock and a rebuff to students involved with public service at the College.... The decision rejects the opinions of some of the most knowledgeable people on campus in the field of public service--the student and non-student directors of Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (PBHA).... [Kidd] is a vice president of Boston's City Year program who has never led an organization similar to PBHA.... We believe PBHA must seize this opportunity to begin raising funds for its eventual withdrawal from University financial support...
...world of relationships, but he has developed a heart the size of the Ford Foundation. He offers all--affection, unflinching honesty, gifts of fine silverware--to the men he falls for, but his charity is almost always misguided. Blue's lovers are a cold, selfish lot who rebuff his devotion with parting lines like, "Weakness isn't sexy...
...appointment of Judith H. Kidd as assistant dean for public service comes as a shock and a rebuff to students involved with public service at the College. We are dumbfounded by the decision itself and also surprised at how the administration has handled its aftermath...
...rally began in earnest in Brussels, it was treated to a shower of ice water from Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, who set the meeting back on its heels by suddenly refusing a long-prepared deal offering Moscow a special relationship with NATO in coordinating European security. Kozyrev's rebuff might have been meant to fend off nationalists at home, but its timing suggested that lessons from the Bosnia debacle were taken into account...
Virginia needs to rebuff North's attempt to reenter the circles of government. He was fortunate enough to avoid prison time for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal; his reputation outside of his media-saturated state still reeks of duplicity. Certainly Virginia has nothing to gain on a national level by electing North. The state would go from "Home of Presidents" to "Home of Guns-for-Hostages...