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...Helms only really came into his own when he was elected to the Senate in 1972. As North Carolina's first Republican Senator since reconstruction, he was never a shoe-in, but from early on he found a slim majority that would respond to his brand of right-wing politics. He opposed Henry Kissinger's nomination as Secretary of State by Richard Nixon because he thought Kissinger was too soft on communism. He attacked foreign aid as wasteful and ill-considered and he was a central player in the culture wars of the '80s and '90s as the champion...
...case at Oxford or Cambridge, where academics have a majority on both universities' executive bodies. Hood, a New Zealander with a background in business, is Oxford's first vice-chancellor to be chosen from outside the University. In late 2006, when he proposed giving lay members a slim majority on a new governing council responsible for non-academic matters, the idea was turned down by the Congregation, the parliament of Oxford dons. In the scramble to catch up with wealthier U.S. colleges, the dons' power could discourage potential benefactors. "A governing body dominated by academic members of a university," says...
...Similar reductions have recently happened or are on the horizon for many other products: Tropicana orange juice containers are shrinking from 96 ounces to 89; Wrigley's is dropping its the 17-stick PlenTPak in favor of the 15-stick Slim Pack; Dial soap bars now weigh half an ounce less, and that's even before they melt in the shower. Containers of Country Crock spread, Hellmann's mayonnaise and Edy's and Breyer's ice cream have all slimmed down as well (although that may not necessarily be a bad thing...
...weekend. The farm is currently surrounded by the vast, temporary canvas city known as the Glastonbury Festival, a massive outdoor music and performing arts festival which the 72-year-old Eavis has hosted since 1970. Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse, Leonard Cohen, Kings of Leon, Jimmy Cliff, Manu Chao, Fatboy Slim and hundreds of other acts will perform on over a dozen stages starting Friday...
...MSNBC, "We now know who the Democratic nominee's going to be." The pronouncement rocketed through the mediasphere and the campaigns themselves. As the New York Times reported shortly afterward, "The thought echoed throughout the world of instant political analysis, blocking the Clinton campaign's efforts to portray her slim victory in Indiana as an upset, as well as her camp's hopeful analysis that she still had a chance to convert superdelegates with triumphs in the races ahead...