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...Party MEP Paul van Buitenen broke the rules to put a summary on his website. Van Buitenen, whose whistle-blowing in 1999 helped bring down the entire European Commission, says the Parliament's top brass knew about the fraud for years but decided not to take any action to tighten the rules. "But so far, the Parliament has not been prepared to come forward with concrete proposals to improve the current system," he says. "The Parliament cannot claim to be the conscience of Europe while this is happening...
...ready for next year, regroup and really come back strong,” Pusar said. “Obviously we have a couple of big wins in there, we have the Penn and Princeton sweep, and we beat Michigan. We have potential and hopefully we can build on that, tighten up a little bit on some of the holes, and hopefully we’ll come back next year and have a great year.”—Staff writer Kevin C. Reyes can be reached at kreyes@fas.harvard.edu...
...have won that title,” Delaney-Smith said. “We’re trying to muster that kind of support again this weekend.”Harvard holds its destiny in its own hands. Come the end of this weekend, the Crimson hopes to have tighten its grip...
...politicians in Germany, the U.S., the U.K. and even Australia are convinced that this tiny enclave is up to no good. German lawmakers have barraged Liechtenstein with such epithets as "rogue state" and "den of thieves," and the German Finance Minister has wondered aloud whether "it's time to tighten the thumbscrews...
...victory, the Crimson will look to tighten up its interior defense and find its own offensive spark...