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...about this time there was a groundswell of opinion among a group of seniors (and underclass students filled with impressive forethought) who raised these very questions about the senior gift. As a result of their quick action, last week an alternative senior gift fund (ASGF) committee was formed to solicit funds for an escrow account whose donation to Harvard will be contingent on, according to the ASGF spokespeople, Harvard fulfilling its "decades-old commitment to achieving greater gender and ethnic equity in the Faculty." Indeed, while the University commissioned reports in both 1971 and 1989 recommending target levels of women...
...students who worked on it deserve a tremendous amount of credit for what they accomplished," said G. Stewart Barns, a member of the board. "They took the initiative to solicit good advice from lawyers and the insurance office...
Bill Clinton has never been averse to the unsightly money business of politics. Even in college he had a card file of friends that he later used to solicit funds for his first congressional campaign. Now he insists that "the White House was not for sale." He says that D.N.C. guidelines "made clear that there was to be no price tag on the events." But a different story keeps popping up all around him. In the Los Angeles Times, an anonymous Democratic fund raiser insisted that D.N.C. finance chairman Marvin Rosen simply told fund raisers to tell donors that...
...bombing, "many leads that seemed hot...have for one reason or another not panned out." Investigators have reportedly been checking out a rumored link with a trio of Idaho men who were arrested for bombings in the Northwest, but no decisive evidence has been produced, at least publicly. To solicit more help, the FBI opened a toll-free phone line so potential tipsters can hear the 911 warning call that preceded the bombing. For now, separate teams of investigators from the FBI and the ATF will be looking into the nightclub and abortion-clinic explosions...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The pressure must be on when Vice President Al Gore looks excited. Undoubtedly feeling a chill over his own presidential prospects next time around, Gore called a press conference today and confirmed to reporters that he had solicited campaign contributions over the phone from his White House office, but firmly denied that he had done anything wrong. "Everything I did, I understood to be lawful," he said. The phone calls, he explained, were charged to the Democratic National Committee, not to taxpayers. While stressing that he had never solicited federal employees for donations, Gore said that his status...