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...become a part of the pageant by seeing him, seeking a blessing or, in one case, attempting to blow him up. At the same time that the Pope is visiting, Movie Director Billy Einhorn passes through his old neighborhood, and most of the Pope watchers also try to solicit Einhorn's attention; for these hungering egos, any notice, any brush with glory, will do. The upshot is at least four deaths, three shattered romances, one imprisonment, one resignation from a convent and the needless scorching of two Brillo pads...
...magazine will not solicit stories from students until it has received funding, Gove said. Although the university has recognized Claritas as an official organization and a publisher has been lined up, Gove said that until enough money has been secured to print the first issue, "it's still just an idea...
...trip to South Africa to solicit interest in the internship program came after the program was criticized by some activist professors and students as misguided because it was forwarded against the wishes of Black leaders in that nation...
While last year, divestment activists concentrated on recapturing the fervor of the past, this year they will be concentrating on branching out and attempting to reach a broader section of the Harvard community. Members continue to solicit alumni support two nights a week, because as Sara L. Szanton '88, SASC coordinator of the drive, says "alumni are a lot more powerful than...
...spirit to their conferences--in which well-known policy-makers would hold forth in print. They never appreciated that the primary function of the Review, at least in our eyes, was to provide undergraduates with a place where they could learn how to write an essay, to edit, to solicit subscriptions: where students could experience working on a political magazine. The institute, I believe, wants to transform the Review from a forum for student writing into a press for bureaucrats and professors...