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...England Patriots linebacker Don Davis called upon students to embrace Christianity and think carefully about their decisions in a speech sponsored by Athletes in Action (AIA) in Science Center D yesterday. In a discussion entitled “Defining Moments,” the ten-year National Football League (NFL) veteran spoke to almost 100 students about the various turning points on the road to becoming a three-time Super Bowl Champion. “Defining moments happen to us all—they have no racial bias, no age bias, no gender bias,” Davis said. According...
...some have reported great success. From 1995 to 2000, for instance, Hobart and William Smith Colleges reported a 30.2 percent decline in the number of students who are frequent heavy drinkers. Northern Illinois University, meanwhile, reported a 44 percent reduction in heavy episodic consumption of alcohol over a ten-year period...
...Thankfully, the Social Democrats and Greens hate the Left Party, an amalgamation of renegade Social Democrats and ex-Communists rooted in the former East Germany. Otherwise, the moral of this tale is a bleak one. Like France and Italy, Germany cries out for change after a ten-year structural slump. Its growth rate is the lowest in Europe, its unemployment stands at 12%, and its budget deficit at 4%. And the voice of the people has just proclaimed: That's just fine with us. Or more accurately: While we understand the need for belt-tightening, let's start with...
Reagan said that late on Sunday afternoon he made "an entirely new proposal" to Gorbachev: "a ten-year delay in deployment of SDI in exchange for the complete elimination of all ballistic missiles from the respective arsenals of both nations." It was the Soviet leader, Reagan said, who balked. "The General Secretary said he would consider our offer only if we restricted all work on SDI to laboratory research, which would have killed our defensive shield...
...Missile treaty, which is still in force. Gorbachev had proposed, earlier this year, that both sides agree to abide by the ABM treaty for up to 20 more years, in the hope of curtailing the development of a Star Wars system. In the past few months, he had hinted that the Soviets would be willing to accept an extension of 15 years, or even less. Reagan had offered a plan that would prohibit deployment of SDI for 7 years. In Iceland both sides tentatively accepted a ten-year extension of the ABM treaty...