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...answer turns to yes, though, when Shula's indomitable class, his never flagging work ethic and his history of success are taken into consideration. He weathered a similar down period with the Dolphins in the late '80s, only to rebuild them into a perennial play-off team. This time around, though, Shula had two things working against him: the ascendancy of new Miami Heat basketball coach Pat Riley, who has turned the N.B.A. team around, and the rabid nature of sports talk radio, which has been feeding the frenzy against Shula and for Johnson. When Shula's resignation was announced...
...learn the fate of their jobs and of the cities of Methuen and Lawrence. Feuerstein entered the gym from the back, and as he shook the snow off his coat, the murmurs turned to cheers. The factory owner, who had already given out $275 Christmas bonuses and pledged to rebuild, walked to the podium. "I will get right to my announcement," he said. "For the next 30 days--and it might be more--all our employees will be paid their full salaries. But over and above the money, the most important thing Malden Mills can do for our workers...
...party opposes privatization, but Zyuganov stops short of saying he would renationalize every industry; he does not want to scare away foreign investors. He would rebuild the shattered armed forces, and perhaps most ambitiously, he wants to re-create the Soviet Union or "a great Rus-sian state" of its former republics. Of course, he says, this must be done peacefully, in a "consistent, step-by-step voluntary way, on the basis of elections, referendums and international treaties." Meanwhile, he says, the West must not expand nato by taking in former Warsaw Pact members...
...history, the Undergraduate Council is showing new signs of growth. Instead of the perennial infections that seem to stifle it--the circuses, the grandstanding, and the recently ridiculous PUCC platform--the council is finally working, through members Elizabeth A. Haynes '98 and Chandler F. Arnold '98, to rebuild the U.C.'s long-lost legitimacy in a way that should serve as a model for the rest of Harvard's unfocused student government...
...program was founded in 1953 to honor George Marshall, the author of the Marshall Plan, which helped rebuild Europe after World...