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...housing system must allow for this," says Murray Burk director of student housing at Dartmouth. He says that it was not uncommon for student to live in as many as six different rooms during their four years at the school...
...world in which spying between friendly nations is not uncommon, what was unusual about the Pollard case? For one thing, the sheer volume of the intelligence material Pollard stole and turned over to Israel. According to the Government, if all these documents were stacked in one place, the resulting mountain of paper would be 6 ft. wide, 6 ft. deep and 10 ft. high. Furthermore, the material stolen covered a wide range of highly sensitive subjects, from nuclear facilities in Iraq and Pakistan to Soviet surface-to- air-missile capabilities to the antiaircraft defenses around the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters...
...uncommon to see quad residents checking their shoes every ten steps or so to see whether they have stepped in something, or whether the smell of thawing dogdoo is so strong as to scent the entire Quad...
...uncommon to see quad residents checking their shoes every ten steps or so to see whether they have stepped in something, or whether the smell of thawing dogdoo is so strong as to scent the entire Quad...
...contras do have severe problems. They are in the midst of another agonizing reorganization, as the liberal civilian leadership tries, with U.S. support, to gain control over the military (not an uncommon problem, incidentally, for American friends from the Philippines to Guatemala). Critics point to the lack of significant contra military gains until now as proof that they cannot win. Perhaps. But it is equally possible that the lack of success has to do with two years of a grossly unbalanced arms race between the contras and the Sandinistas. Such imbalances are not rectified overnight, nor do they lend themselves...