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...away from thesis research and writing for fun to experience things like real life and other people this summer, I'll do the same in the fall. While the constant anxiety may reach a fever pitch during senior year, outsiders should never underestimate the Harvard student's ability to stave off that guilt with a healthy dose of denial. All over the planet, we live out our lives in the same pattern, and for some reason, after driving us crazy for four years, it works...
...positions. But the threat of force wilted in May with the ill-fated European tour of Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who could not -- some say would not -- persuade the European Community to follow the American lead. Last week Christopher essentially ruled out using force at all to stave off the fall of Sarajevo or otherwise come to the rescue of the Muslims, saying the U.S. had done all it could in Bosnia...
...chairman of New York's Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, he took home $600,000 a year in his chauffeur-driven Lincoln Town Car. The salary and transportation were paid for by the nation's largest nonprofit health insurer at a time when it was trying to stave off insolvency by drastically raising the premiums of the elderly, the poor and the chronically sick. But, as Cardone once asked a New York Times reporter, is it "fair" for a man of his stature to take a train to work every...
Until then, the battle to stave off closures goes on. The bases under consideration are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps installations, including such well-known ones as Miramar Naval Air Station and Presidio of Monterey in California and McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. None of the targeted bases, though, has defenders more fervid than the partisans of three East Coast naval shipyards: at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Charleston, South Carolina; and Norfolk, Virginia. All three can claim long, distinguished service to the U.S. Navy, are particularly proud of being "Navy towns" and typify the head-to-head...
Indeed, Roger Williams could hardly play at Harvard's level. But although it was severely deficient in every basic volleyball skill, Roger Williams managed to stave off embarrassment against the superior Crimson...