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...species.” The Crimson owes a retraction and an apology to Diversity & Distinction for its gross misrepresentation of a successful student publication and its financial status. We hope that in the future, your writers will take greater care to distinguish the past from the present, and to refrain from inaccurate and damaging statements about student organizations on the Harvard campus. While the article is yours to write, the truth is not yours to rewrite...
...have been waiting for the day when how much money a candidate raised would be a major issue in the campaign itself. I thought this might make campaign finance self-regulating: candidates would refrain from raising too much money for fear it would be held against them. Boy, did I get that one backward...
...issued a statement saying he was "dismayed and saddened" by an assumption that anyone was intentionally excluded. "For thirty years we have made films that have tried to tell many of the stories that haven't been told in American history" and he went on to ask viewers to "refrain from passing judgment on our work until they have seen...
...victory, so I ran at the goal and tried to dunk it.”The decisive goal didn’t come without a bit of controversy. After taking a pass from Denver native Carl Stenmark, Mahler came inches away from the crease, forcing the referees to refrain from immediately signaling the goal.“Carle made a great pass right to me, and my defenseman just ran right past,” he said. “Fortunately, it didn’t get taken away.”It was Harvard’s ability...
...peace accord signed last September with tribal leaders in North Waziristan, the Pakistani government agreed to scale down its operations in the area if local militants would refrain from attacking government troops and would end cross-border raids into Afghanistan. On that front, the agreement has clearly failed - cross-border attacks have increased threefold since September, according to U.S. military officials. Many of those have been bomb attacks on government officials and police officers in provincial capitals such as Khost. Last year, Hajji Muslim was nearly killed by a remote-detonated IED that blew apart his car and left...