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...have to press them," Clemens said. "but by the same token we know they're going to pass and we could get beaten. We have to find a balance...
Graduate student Sophie Volpp says that as a member of the Lyman Common Room Task Force, she and other students had hoped to contribute to the room's organization. But the student group, Volpp felt, was only a token voice. She highlights Lyman's hiring procedures as evidence that Lyman planners did not have women's issues foremost in mind...
...czarist citadel, inside no outright cheers greeted Gorbachev's shape-up course. Legislators adopted the program by a vote of 333 to 12 (with 34 abstentions) but remained unsure as to exactly what the plan would accomplish. Still, the scheme's preamble sets a clear objective. While making a token half-nod to Marx -- "The transition to the market does not contradict the socialist choice of our people" -- it recites a litany of woes and concludes, "The whole world experience has proved the vitality and efficiency of the market economy...
...Even as token a gambit as this four-second solution seems refreshing amid the depressing political landscape. It might be tempting to cast the media consultants as villains who substitute deceptive advertising techniques for high-minded dialogue. But many admakers feel as trapped by slash-and-burn campaigning as the hapless voters. "I hate going negative," says G.O.P. consultant Don Ringe, who is creating ads for Senate candidates in Colorado and Hawaii. "But all of us, Democrats and Republicans, are corrupted by the system...
Shortly after the Boeing 737 took off from the Xiamen airport bound for Guangzhou last week, a passenger clutching flowers proceeded to the cockpit. Perhaps assuming that the man wanted to offer the flowers to the crew as a Moon Festival token, two security guards allowed him through. Once inside, the passenger reportedly opened his jacket to reveal 15 lbs. of explosives strapped to his chest and ordered all crew members, except for the pilot, out of the cockpit. He then demanded that the plane fly to Taiwan...