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...removed at any time. So she is careful not to put a word out of place in the hypersensitve aviation community. With an administration that has so far granted every wish the airline industry has asked of it, Garvey knows her head might be the next request...
...original statement of demands, PSLM had requested immunity from any academic or disciplinary repercussions. Beyond a non sequitur that other universities had granted similar demands, the only justification for the request was that PSLM was acting to make Harvard “a better university”—in contrast, one assumes, to all the protests to make Harvard a worse university. In short, PSLM asked to be excused from certain academic requirements because of the rightness of its cause...
...level, such a request is misguided, because it reduces the moral force of the protests. I believe PSLM is sincerely committed to its cause, and suffering is not the only means to show sincerity. But I would guess that at least some of the 50 percent of students who find the sit-in unjustified consider a protest the University offers to supply with food, soap and other necessities to be more like Progressive Student Summer Camp—all the protest and none of the consequences. If PSLM had simply padlocked Mass. Hall and refused to reveal the combination...
Last Wednesday was deliverance day for Vladimir Gusinsky. When a Madrid court turned down Russia's request to extradite the 48-year-old media magnate on fraud charges - ending his 10-month tussle with Kremlin prosecutors - Gusinsky savored his redemption. Fielding congratulatory calls on three phones at his villa in Sotogrande, he told one well-wisher, "This isn't the end of anything. It's the beginning...
...Crimson is a team that never sits in its dugout. The players stand so close to the field in order to cheer on their teammates that many an umpire has been forced to kindly request that they take a few steps back. Throughout his career, Birtwell was a fixture at the head of that group...