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Last night’s meeting also decided in a straw-poll vote to focus money on hosting a large band at Springfest rather than to fund rides. The office of President Lawrence H. Summers, which is working with the council to plan this year’s Springfest, had requested the vote...
...Last Straw...
...undergraduate which class has the shortest straw. The answer is sure to be the sophomores. From at least reasonable dormitories in Harvard Yard, they have been moved into the unwanted rooms of the housing system—reject rooms of the upper-class lotteries. They are struggling with tutorials in the wrong concentrations, cursing the fifth-class demon of seductive overambition, pass-failing, add-dropping, withdrawing in frustration, and abandoning pre-med for The Study of Religion...
COLOMBIA The Final Straw Warplanes began bombing rebel territory, and the army moved thousands of troops to the area, after the government canceled peace talks. President Andrés Pastrana broke off negotiations with FARC guerrillas after rebels hijacked a civilian plane and abducted a senator...
...arboreal disaster brought an end to filming on campus. “My understanding of the folklore is that the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back was the fact that in the late ’70s, lots of trees were damaged during the filming of Small Circle of Friends by use of fake snow,” Wrinn says...