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...Rudenstine's reign been good for the University? Undoubtedly, if Harvard's coffers are any measure of its success. In some ways, Rudenstine looks to have accomplished the goal that was set for him when he came in, cultivating greater concern for the University as a whole among its diffuse parts...
During her reign, she emphasized the value of improving technology used by the organization, dramatically improved the methods of collecting and distributing blood and raised over $562 million to assist victims of natural disasters...
...sent home because of her indelicate condition. Though her representative denied it, pageant officials contended Heflin was pregnant, a state outlawed in competition. The issue arose again when the night's three remaining contestants were asked whether Miss Universe should step down if she became pregnant during her reign. After Miss Spain and Miss Philippines, a crowd favorite who all but had the crown bobby-pinned to her head, fumbled, Miss Botswana stepped in. MPULE KWELAGOBE, her country's first-ever entrant, walked away with the title after asserting that pregnancy, like the pageant, was a celebration of femininity...
During his long reign, Suharto led an outwardly modest life. Behind the facade, however, he showed an appetite for making money. In the 1950s, he was allegedly involved in sugar smuggling that may have cost him command of an army division during a 1959 anticorruption drive. Suharto asserts that he bartered sugar for rice to ease a local food shortage and did not benefit personally, but he was transferred to a less influential position at the army staff college...
...spite of my growing distaste for the more obviously commercial side of hip hop performance, I couldn't pass on the opportunity of seeing the almighty Kris Parker make his Knowledge Reign Supreme in club Liquid in Boston last Friday night, particularly because Biz Markie was supposed to be there as well. Plus I got in for free...