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...some little combinations which worked well, but we have to get rid of the ball quicker," Harvard Co-Captain and mid-fielder Ceci Clark said. "We dug ourselves into a hole...
...wants to run for president: To "get rid of organized bribery" in U.S. politics. (He's idealistic...
...have fingered Lukyanov as the ideological mastermind of the plot. So many other suspected conspirators are being investigated that Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov felt obliged to issue a public appeal: no citizen should denounce another as a coup supporter in order to settle a private score or to get rid of a boss whose job the informer wants. Such denunciations were among the most infamous features of Stalin's purges...
Worse, representatives of some other republics feared that the decrees, combined with the fact that nearly all newly chosen officers of the Soviet government are Russians, meant that they had got rid of communist totalitarianism only to be swept up into a new Russian empire. "God save us from the nationalism of the Great People!" cried Genrikh Igityan, an Armenian Deputy, during one Supreme Soviet debate. Apparently realizing that he had overreached himself, Yeltsin late last week rescinded some decrees, including one asserting Russian control of state banks. That only added to the confusion: Viktor Gerashchenko, head of the Soviet...
Others, however, had more mundane concerns in mind. "Get rid of the bunk beds," Tanya E. Kean '95 said. "I know I'm going to fall off in the middle of the night," she added. In a similar vein, Donald D. Lewis '95 said, "I tried to take a hot shower but there was no hot water. We need hot water...