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...million prime-time viewers watched Chirac field questions from a carefully selected group of around 80 young people - an educational chat aimed at explaining the constitution and reversing the trend toward no. Chirac stressed that the constitution will protect Europe from "the ultraliberal current" of globalization rather than succumb to it as the no forces contend. He warned that France would "cease to exist politically" if no prevailed, and urged voters to seek "strength in union" within the E.U. by embracing a constitution whose content and inspiration he described as "essentially French." Despite Chirac's often impassioned arguments, a poll...
...amazing that the U.S., the most open society in the world, has so far been the safest. But most experts on terrorism agree that America will be the next target. From this point on, caution and a keen sense of awareness should be used. To succumb to fear and panic is not the answer. The terrorists' assumption that taking Americans as hostages humiliates us is sad and ludicrous. The U.S. will never be brought to its knees by terrorists, nor can we be shamed by those who adhere to religious and political fanaticism. Clay E. Ewing Goliad, Texas...
...three friendly Chamber of Commerce types as they walk toward the Martian craft. Zap! More ashes. A minister tries to soothe them with the 23rd Psalm. Zap again! Luckily (or unluckily, as Vegaites might view it), they had not got their flu shots before they left home, and they succumb to our microbe-rich...
According to senior Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, one of the protestors, SWA believes the University will succumb to the pressure of negative press and potentially deferred recruits, and that administrators will be forced to effect change...
...liberal professors, resulting in liberal teaching. This has even extended into the realm of introductory economics at Harvard. In the fall of 2003, a supposed leftist version of Ec 10, Social Analysis 72, was introduced into the course catalog. The historically sound institution of Ec 10 must not succumb to a similar fate. As a result, we should both accept and welcome the fact that Ec 10 will continue to be taught with a conservative approach, by a conservative professor—who literally wrote the book on the subject...