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Perhaps, just this once, Harvard will prove its history wrong. Perhaps--though we hedge no bets--Harvard will retract the "voluntary retirement" of Joe Hickey...

Author: By William L. Kirtley and Megan L. Peimer, S | Title: Joe Hickey's 'Retirement' | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

Although the committee later voted to retract the money allocated for the shells, some committee members wanted to prevent such abuses from occurring in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students in Eliot May Restrict Voting | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

Josh just couldn't leave it at that. He had to urge his readers to terrorize members of Peninsula. What did he have in mind? Verbal abuse? Physical abuse? Letter bombs? I urge Mr. Kaufman to retract this statement. Unless, of course, he believes people should be persecuted for their beliefs. It takes a true coward to encourage terrorism by proxy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diatribe on Peninsula Is From a Warped Perspective | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

DAMASCUS: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to restart stalled peace negotiations with Syria was met with a decidedly low-key response from the Syrian government. On a trip to Jordan Monday, Netanyahu had proposed peace talks on all outstanding matters, but did not retract any of his many earlier statements that Israel required the Golan Heights for its security and would not return the land to Syria. Although Syria's government has not officially rejected the offer, an editorial in Tuesday's edition of Tishrin called the offer "honey-coated" but not serious. "Although Tishrin speaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks but no Thanks | 8/6/1996 | See Source »

...would commend Arafat for last week's vote by the Palestine National Council to remove language in its charter that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. Peres also had praise for the PLO for its anti-terrorist efforts: "We have to encourage the winds of peace to retract the shadows of danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Signs Anti-Terrorism Accord | 4/30/1996 | See Source »

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