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...randomly opened it up and came across an article entitled, "Canaday Must Be Destroyed," by Mike O'Shea '95. As a resident of Canaday and a hardcore fan of my dorm, I decided to skim through...
...sweetheart deal -- one to which "the Governor-in-the-making provided his name" while "the S&L owner ((McDougal)) and affiliated entities provided virtually all, perhaps all, the money." The company "may have begun as a legitimate real estate venture," Leach intoned, "but it came to be used to skim, directly or indirectly, federally insured deposits from an S&L," meaning Madison, and some of the money was "used to pay off personal and campaign liabilities of the Governor." Conclusion: far from losing heavily, as the Clintons have always contended, "the family of the former Governor of Arkansas received value...
...optional Healthy Choice meal, which readsalarmingly like a Weight Watchers menu, includes ahelping of Steamship of Beef, a slice of wholegrain bread, one cup of a leafy vegetable, a pieceof fruit and eight ounces of skim milk...
...liberal campus is by offending it. As an editorialist, I know that people don't read and remember the things you write unless you say something shocking or insulting. For instance, if this editorial were about NAFTA or Bosnia, you would probably glance over the first column, maybe skim the first lines of the remaining paragraphs, and then turn to Dilbert...
...Everyone on the board and other active membersmay not have liked each other that much, but thatdid not at all affect how we dealt with the HCS'sKim said. "I think that's a testament of maturityto the 1993 board that everyone was able tosuppress their differences with the other membersin order to see the HCS progress...