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...mainstay of Driskell's platform, the census would have been a way for the council both to gather student input and to convey legitimately that input to administrators. But this admirable project, which would have done much to restore much of the council's credibility, was met with stubborn resistance by council conservatives. Although the project withstood a funding challenge, these council members--led by those who voted earlier to remove Burton--managed to seriously curtail the project's visibility. Now, the council expected to collect less than half of the original 500 surveys--a sample size that...
...stubborn person. I wanted to do it, so I did," she says...
...incident at Harvard will always remain with me as a model for good policing: I remember he once diffused a very tense, emotional conflict in the Science Center between two very stubborn parties with reason and communication his only tool. Where other officers would have resorted to threats and intimidation, he understood that dialogue and understanding yield the only permanent solutions...
...Thursday, all the rumors had him quitting. "Everyone is hearing the same thing," says an adviser to Governor George Pataki. "He's going, and he's going fast." Giuliani maintains that he hasn't made up his mind, and those who know him well caution that he is stubborn and mercurial enough to confound all expectations. "If the entire Republican leadership held a press conference and said, 'Rudy, you must go,' he'd be sure to stay in," says someone who has known him for 30 years. A city hall source told TIME the mayor was ready to quit last...
...Riesling, the dominant German varietal that has been cruelly stereotyped on American shores as tasting sweeter than Katie Couric dipped in caramel. "All grapes are not created equal," Gluckstern says. "There's an acid-sugar balance in great Riesling that you won't find in any other grape." Stubborn U.S. diners have mostly ignored him and gone on sipping their Chardonnay...