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...That struck me as a bit curious. After all, more than half of his fellow council members last year voted to censure Liston for failing to perform his duties as vice president, though that motion was set aside because censuring requires a supermajority of two-thirds. He was very nearly impeached. A campus-wide referendum he administered was invalidated because he botched...
Although Harvard led through most of the game, it was the Big Red who struck first. After stopping the Crimson in three plays on the first drive of the game, Cornell mounted a 10-play, 46-yard drive to put the ball at the Harvard 23. There, sophomore John Rodin booted a line-drive 40-yard field goal to give Cornell a 3-0 lead...
...controversial Colorado amendment against local gay-rights laws, the inspiration for a nationwide boycott when voters passed it in 1992, was struck down by the state's Supreme Court. The grounds: it denied gays an equal voice in government. The notorious Amendment 2, which would have voided anti-discrimination ordinances in Denver, Boulder and Aspen, was never really enforced and has been in and out of court ever since. Supporters plan to revive the case before the U.S. Supreme Court...
Subsequent reporting by associate editor Janice Simpson and editorial assistant Breena Clarke on dance, film, music and theater quickly revealed that the artistic flowering was much broader than a literary one. "In all of these fields," says White, "what struck me was the audacity and exuberance of the artists, some of whom had moved beyond racial themes and so-called black styles, and felt free to explore any form." That freedom is the keynote of this week's cover story, written by White...
...rather than caving in, the Crimson struck back, and quickly. Harvard's first corner of the contest was taken beautifully by junior Chris Wojcik, who fired a flat, low ball into the box that was punched into the net by the head of senior Steve Gaffney...