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Because that estimate was wrong this year, theStudent Employment Office (SEO) is advising thosestudents cut off by the lack of work-study fundsto seek non-work-study employment...
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell is that rare breed of politician who is both partisan and fair-minded. Last week he stunned colleagues on both sides of the aisle by announcing that, after 14 years of service, he will not seek another term. Steering clear of the rage for nasty partings Mitchell instead offered his colleagues warm words of praise: "I'll leave the Senate with good feelings. It's a great institution...
...could have been 1987, the early days of the Palestinian intifadeh, all over again. In the dusty, barricaded streets of the Gaza Strip, steel-helmeted Israeli troops played deadly hide-and-seek with bands of rock-throwing Palestinian youths. Three knife-wielding men set upon Israeli settlers, who shot two of the attackers, one fatally. Riots swept through occupied West Bank towns; soldiers fired tear gas and bullets that killed eight Arabs and wounded dozens. The hard-line Islamic movement Hamas called on Arabs to take revenge on Israelis for the massacre of at least 30 Palestinians in Hebron...
...have found attentive ears willing to listen to our truth," remarked a Zapatista commander, before he and his colleagues returned to their mountain redoubts to seek ratification of the agreement from their followers. "This stage of dialogue has ended, and it is on a good path." Government peace commissioner Manuel Camacho Solis was equally enthusiastic: "Every time there was a rebellion, it always ended in a huge massacre of Indians. Here it is ending in dialogue." He insisted that there were "no winners or losers" at the bargaining table, but it is difficult not to see the Zapatistas as triumphant...
...leadership principles which all midshipmen learn in "Know yourself and seek self-improvement." This principle carries over to all of the members of the different branches in ROTC, in that this group of students is committed not only to being the best officer possible, but combining their experiences at Harvard and in ROTC to become better people...