Word: shapes
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...Twenty years ago there were a number of [university presidents] who were great public leaders, who helped shape the public agenda with respect to higher education," recalls L. Steven Zwerling, a senior director at the Ford Foundation...
MUSIC . . . THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE: Formed out of the wreckage of post-Kurt Cobain Nirvana, Foo Fighter's eponymous 1995 debut was muddled but promising, notes TIME's Christopher John Farley: "Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD, Foo Fighters never breaks out of the label 'promising,' which starts to sound more like a burden than a compliment the second time around." The songs on the new album dwell mainly on how relationships fall apart, a subject that?s been dealt with in pop songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights...
...Hartzler's questions, and to Jones' too. He described how McVeigh served as best man at his wedding, held at a Las Vegas casino in July 1994. Soon afterward, Fortier said, McVeigh began to talk about taking "positive, offensive action" against the government. A plan began to take shape. By October, McVeigh and Terry Nichols had chosen a target: the federal building in Oklahoma City. (Nichols, the other person charged in the bombing, will be tried after McVeigh.) McVeigh wanted "to cause a general uprising in America," Fortier said. The government workers "may be individually innocent, but because they were...
...Democratic National Committee faces a financial crisis that puts it "in the worst shape it's ever been," says a major fund raiser. "I'm not sure it can recover." Fund raising is always hardest right after a national election; D.N.C. officials emphasize they have reached all their money targets so far this year and expect to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But the party is $14.4 million in debt and must repay $1.5 million more in contributions now judged improper. It is awkward to ask legitimate donors to cough up cash that will end up reimbursing illegitimate...
While legislation on the Core, proposed by the Faculty's Core Reform Committee, is likely to pass at the Faculty's May 20 meeting, the incoming council members will help shape the debate on other issues, such as junior Faculty compensation and child care provisions...