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...Aristide argued against a U.S. plan to transmit prodemocracy radio messages from military airplanes if the messages urge Haitians not to flee the country. And human-rights advocate Randall Robinson, after spending time on the American hospital ship where Haitian refugees are being questioned, declared the immigration process a sham. So far only 52 of the 289 refugees interviewed at sea have been granted refugee status...
Marius resigned earlier this year after a Crimson investigation revealed widespread dissatisfaction with his leadership style among department members. In response, the University hired his longtime assistant, Nancy Sommers, to replace him, after a brief sham of a search for a successor that initially featured a two-week deadline for applications and virtually no advertisements...
...spend an extra $18 billion a year on health insurance. And confidential, computer-aided studies by the White House estimate that the mandate would reduce employment growth by 300,000 to 600,000 jobs. Robert Moffit, a health-care expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, calls mandates a "sham" and a "delusion." Says he: "The major game in health-care financing is to hide the costs by making sure that other people appear to be paying the bills. Well, any increase in employer mandates will be passed on to workers in the form of reduced compensation or job loss...
...mean No after all. Not to RUS anyway. This year, as usual, RUS is the primary funder of Take Back the Night--and, as the newly-named "clearinghouse for women's concerns," the striptease act it does not with recently-acquired and shantily-worn principles will be the real sham on display in the MAC Quadrange and throughout the streets of the campus this evening. Supposedly redressing its political shallowness, RUS has decided to continue to treat Take Back the Night as anon-partisan event; for those of us not blinded by the klieg lights, however, another picture is more...
This is ethical bankruptcy, and it merits only one response. Refuse to be tainted by participating in this sham. To the 1,600 of you who have singed the Charter for Student Government Reform: take heart. You will get the vote you signed for, within two weeks, and it will be fair. To the house committees: they can't force you to be a party to this. Don't let them...