Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Turnout by Harvard students was "a record low," with only some 81 of 599 river house and first-year voters casting ballots at two precincts on campus, according to Election Commissioner Wayne A. "Rusty" Drugan...
Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 appeared at several river houses over the weekend to drum up student support. Duehay's staffers also e-mailed college voters last night, he said...
...River Grove, Illinois, a Chicago-bound commuter train plowed into a school bus filled with teenagers, killing seven students and injuring nearly 30 others. The bus had apparently come to a stop for a red light situated just beyond a railroad crossing, with the rear of the bus still extended over the tracks. An investigation is under...
President Clinton took advantage of the global gathering to meet privately with Russian President Boris Yeltsin for four hours at F.D.R.'s Hudson River estate. The tete-a-tete was demonstrably friendly, with Yeltsin squeezing Clinton in a bear hug. With their urging, negotiators later agreed that about 2,000 Russian troops would play a noncombat supporting role in a multinational peacekeeping force in Bosnia. But nato insists that any Russian combat troops in Bosnia be placed under its control, a demand the Russians just as adamantly reject...
...than dowdy. To them it looks oafish, overgrown, hypocritical, rife with ineptitude and possibly--as some overwrought Americans insist on seeing it--downright wicked. By this light, the creation of a half-century ago comports with reality now about as much as the cookie-cutter shapes of its East River edifices still evoke an idealized modernity. Budget-strapped, groping for a fresh start, the U.N. seems to slouch toward the millennium like a limping panhandler...