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This ended a year-long saga, during which the Navy had first announced it would vacate the rented buildings as part of the cost-cutting associated with nationwide military cutbacks...
Throughout the embarrassing saga, the Faculty relied on a bright hope and a false promise, praying that the election of Bill Clinton would make ROTC a moot issue. But Clinton's pledge to lift the ban went the way of most campaign promises. And the Faculty is still trying, by every means possible, to avoid taking a stand...
...newest and maybe most important chapter in the saga will be played out today when the Crimson hosts arch-rival Yale. The Bulldogs come into the match tied for first and possessing a solid line-up-all-around...
...repaid the loan appeared incomplete. One ledger included the date "Sept. 31," suggesting that it was a hurriedly conjured reconstruction. The inept handling of what at first appeared to be a minor, perhaps nonexistent transgression inspired some commentators to compare Hosokawa's problems to Bill Clinton's Whitewater saga. At his departure press conference, Hosokawa expressed the "sincere hope that this act of mine will result in restoring public trust in the political process...
...scenes -- a boy dealing with the slaughter of his mother, that boy grown up into a loving musician who is shot down, another boy coping with his father's grim disappearance -- are adapted from the Lennon saga. The parallels lend sporadic power to a sketchy plot with underdrawn characters and a maudlin message: the first act climaxes in a plea for universal brotherhood, the second in a ritual surrender of weapons by a multicultural array of street toughs...