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...Cabinet resolution of April 30, 1997, PBHA voted for a PBHA hired-staff that would enhance our programming, and that the Board should supervise the executive director with guidelines that were helpful for mutual understanding between Harvard and PBHA. However, you quizzically claim that I moved to "retract the organization's demands. " I am not clear on what you are paraphrasing. What I did was move to accept an agreement-on which the Board of Trustees has been working diligently for the last six months-that coincide with Cabinet's demands...
During last night's board meeting, PBHA Vice President Michael W. Ma '98 proposed to retract the organization's demands to hire its own staff and instead offered to capitulate to the College...
...problem NASA had foreseen. In J.P.L.'s so-called sandbox, a roomful of Mars-like rock and soil with a mock-up lander and rover, the engineers had rehearsed a fairly straightforward maneuver that called for Pathfinder to raise one petal, tilting the entire craft 45[degrees], retract the deflated bag further and then lower the petal. The signal to execute the maneuver was sent up shortly before Earth set over the Martian horizon, breaking the communications link until dawn; just before the connection was actually severed, a picture came back confirming that the command had been executed. Though...
...Morning News lawyers obtained about 25,000 FBI memoranda and interviews with witnesses and hundreds of documents for McVeigh and co-defendant Terry Nichols by breaking into the defense's computer files. For its part, the Morning News stood by its story and maintains that it has nothing to retract. "We did not break any laws," News attorney Paul Watler said. "We have no fear of criminal repercussions...
...apology, which appears in today's issue of the Record, "unconditionally retract[s]" previous statements insinuating that Nesson used cocaine, drank heavily during his time as a law student and had sexual relations with students. Six other professors were involved in retracted statements...