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...tutor told the red-jacketed usher that we had been particularly belligerent, cursed at him, and probably didn’t attend Harvard anyway. All this as Yale mounted a second-quarter comeback push. I consider it nothing short of a miracle that I was able to enjoy Ricky Williamson’s 100-yard interception return...
...hope around the world--hope that the death of the unyielding Palestinian leader might bring a fresh opportunity to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the White House, President George W. Bush spoke of an "opening for peace" and offered hints that his second term might usher in a reinvigorated American role. Although Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could not bring himself to mention the name of his old nemesis, he said that "recent events are likely to constitute a turning point in Middle Eastern history." Arab rulers saw reason for encouragement in the moderate cast...
...well as many others, are optimistic that the dialogue taking place under the crystal chandeliers of the Faculty Room and behind the ornate wooden doors of the Barker Center will help usher in a new generation of tenured women faculty...
Nathans’ departure may herald changes to come—including shifting advising away from the freshmen proctors and toward an advising center or formally linking first-years to the Houses. The new dean could usher in the changes to residential and advising life betokened in the review...
...choosing 275 members of a National Assembly that will name an interim President and two deputies; they, in turn, will pick a Prime Minister and the Cabinet. The assembly's main job is to draft a constitution that will set permanent rules for Iraq's democratic system and usher in another round of voting by the end of 2005. The constitution must be put to a referendum by October. If it is rejected--and divvying up powers and rights among Iraq's jostling ethnic and religious factions will be extremely tricky--the whole process will start over again...