Word: respondents
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...would like to respond to Adam Webb, et. al.'s letter of April 16, in which he characterized Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel as "one of many groups and individuals who have disregarded traditional values in pursuit of temporal gratification, whether it be sexual pleasure or kudos from liberal groups and administrators." I wish to commend Webb on his insightful characterization of this duplicitous group; the Truth, as Peninsula calls it, is finally...
...success of last week's mission, however, did not settle the ongoing debate about the value of manned spaced flights. NASA officials have long insisted that human crews are vital because even the most sophisticated robots lack the ability to respond to unexpected situations. If the U.S. is serious about exploring the solar system, they say, unmanned probes to distant celestial bodies must be followed by missions involving humans...
...staffers are usually quick to respond, "Oh, no this isn't a Women's Center. This is the Lyman Common Room [Center for Women]. Harvard doesn't have a Women's Center...
...first question in an intimate Oval Office session came from George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times. Ronald Reagan looked squarely at Skelton and started to respond: "Well, Lou . . ." The reporters present, though used to Reagan's lapses, were embarrassed for Skelton as he reintroduced himself. The President had in mind Lou Cannon of the Washington Post, who, like Skelton, had covered Reagan's trajectory from Sacramento to Washington. To Reagan, Cannon was the generic newsie of that vintage...
Bush aides respond that this would only have prolonged the agony. "Going after the helicopters would have been a symbolic gesture, not a serious way to change the outcome of the fighting," said an Administration official. The best U.S. intelligence estimates, he asserted, indicated that "Saddam could have put down the insurgencies even without helicopters by using his armor and artillery. If we were really going to help the rebels, we would have had to target tanks and artillery. That would have turned very quickly into full- scale fighting." And then to extricate its own troops the U.S. would have...