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This fact is a bit embarrassing to reveal. After all, I have spent a great deal of energy in the last year or so complaining about the terrible quality of the planning, design, atmosphere, and food that Loker has to offer. However, since in spite of its flaws the space is quite convenient for a quick bite to eat--or to check e-mail, or to get cash, or to use the phone--I have begun to visit it more and more, and to be taken in by its charms. I have found myself stopping for a leisurely lunch, striking...
...spite of a recent survey by UCLA researchers claiming that this year's first-years are more conservative, the Harvard campus has proven to be awash with liberal sentiment. Fortunately, Harvard has two Republican clubs and two conservative newspapers. By joining The Harvard Salient and becoming freshman-member-at-large for the Harvard Republican Club, I have found shelter from the storm...
...despite being hit with everything from health-warning labels to smoking bans in buildings to Vice President Al Gore's tale last year of his sister's fatal lung cancer, cigarette makers have survived and prospered. The industry's profits have been healthy for a decade, and in spite of countless lawsuits, no tobacco company has ever paid out a single penny to compensate anyone for damaged health...
...spite of the sputtering from Moscow, the prospect of increasing military commitments in Central Europe, and the considerable dollar cost attached, the plan to expand NATO has generated surprisingly little discussion in the West. Though many Europeans have doubts, they look at enlargement resignedly, as an American show. Most of the European partners figure there is no point in opposing the U.S. now that the push has gone this far and Clinton seems unyielding on it. The alliance's future could be at stake. "More than anything else," says a senior NATO diplomat in Brussels, "enlargement is about an American...
Dobbs has written a straight-ahead narrative that makes good use of the documents coming out of newly opened East bloc archives. He reveals, for example, that in spite of their threats and military maneuvers, Brezhnev and Co. never intended to invade Poland, short of an anticommunist rebellion. Dobbs is always clear and persuasive, but he tries so hard to be everywhere--Poland, Yugoslavia, China, Russia--and to explain everything, that his survey ends up feeling disappointingly two-dimensional...