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...Keith Gamble, manager of Bob Slate’s Stationary, says the issue at stake for the community is not the fact that businesses are failing more than before, but that when they do, they are replaced by national companies with little interest in the community...
...Radcliffe will have to be able to give its alumnae and the Harvard community a clearer picture of its mission in order to capitalize on alumni support and stake out a truly influential position at the University...
...that end, the players the Crimson did have all made vital contributions. Junior co-captain Justin Denham was a dominant force at outside hitter, and sophomore setter Mike Bookman continued to stake a claim to being one of the nation's best setters. Bookman and Denham will serve as next years' captains...
...different, to be sure, but if anyone knows what life in the Senate is like for a party switcher, it's Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the bolo-wearin', Harley-ridin' Senator from Colorado. When Campbell left the Democrats for the Republicans in 1995, no balance of power was at stake, but that didn't make things any easier. "It's burned into my memory forever," says Campbell of the weeks after his switch. "You just get hammered on awfully hard." The awkwardness lasted a few weeks, he reports. But despite presumed similarities, the Senate functions with a little more dignity than...
...bill's backers hope that giving nationalists a greater stake in the system will induce them to end their struggle against "French colonialism." Opponents counter it rewards the thuggery, violence and widespread corruption that nationalists and criminals used to make Corsica an unmanageable headache for French governments since 1975. Conservative detractors like Nicole Ameline, spokeswoman for the centrist Liberal Democracy Party, argued the bill legitimizes "violence as a means of gaining political recognition." Other rightists condemned it as "preparing independence." The loudest protests came from Jospin's own leftist majority. Former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement - who resigned...