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...that he should leave college and make room for people prepared to take good advantage of the college opportunity.”The College’s hard line, however, did not seem to impede the experimentally-ambitious. “The mid 60s were a time of great tumult in the United States,” says James F. Calvert ’67. “Drug use was an important part of the general atmosphere of rebellion.” Calvert, then a senior at the College, believed that The Crimson was giving drug users...
...Presidential advisers have told TIME that Bush will describe the world as full of change in the economy, demographics and technology-and he?ll tout his ideas as ways of giving Americans tools to deal with this tumult. He?ll repackage several longstanding ideas-like tort reform and making permanent the tax cuts that are due to expire in the coming years-as essential to the American economy. He?ll also tout health care reform-especially the idea, endorsed by politicians from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Newt Gingrich, to use technology to lower health care costs-but avoid getting mired...
...rushed King. "I'm not worried about anything! I'm not fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!" He broke off the quotation and stumbled sideways into a hug from Abernathy. The preachers helped him to a chair, some crying, and tumult washed through the Mason Temple...
...spring of 2004, the HRC experienced some tumult when then-club spokeswoman Lauren K. Truesdell ’06 told The Crimson that the club supported the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), which would define marriage in the United States exclusively as “the union of a man and a woman.” However, the HRC constitution mandates that “the official policies of the HRC shall be based on the platform of the National Republican Party” and that “deviation from these policies must be subject to a majority approval...
...tumult of war that caused the economic collapse of this mercantile society. The community's assets were requisitioned by the British at the start of World War II to service the war effort in East Asia, crippling the Nagarathars at the height of their affluence. They returned home, but abandoned their properties, preferring to relocate to India's heaving cities to rebuild their fortunes. Today, unable or unwilling to maintain their former family seats, many descendants are taking the buildings apart and selling the spoils. The antique shops of Chettinad's biggest town, Karaikudi, are full of them?and they...