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...Former Harvard Republican Club President Noah Z. Seton '00 and campus progressive Kamil E. Redmond '00 forge a political partnership to win the Undergraduate Council's leadership. Seton and Redmond vow to focus on student services during their year-long term...
...minds, it's just horrendous," McKean says. Despite the University's vow to extend health and education benefits to its subcontracted workers, many SSI guards may not receive them, since company turnover rates are high...
...alternative treatment--implanting tiny radioactive "seeds"--has less risk of side effects but doesn't always eradicate the cancer. "I find myself unable to make the treatment decision yet," Giuliani confessed Friday. After he grapples with that, he will have to figure out how to deliver on his vow to extend the good times to all the communities of New York City. In his very first appearance as mayor-elect, in 1993, Giuliani went to Harlem and asked the people there "to give me a chance to show in deeds rather than words my commitment to this community." His deeds...
There's an instructive scene early in Jesus (CBS, May 14 and 17, 9 p.m. E.T.) in which Roman soldiers insist that their insignia be displayed in Jerusalem's temple and the priests vow to die rather than let graven images inside. TV producers might do well to observe a similar proscription when it comes to the Bible, given their tendency to engrave religion as a greeting-card punch line (God, the Devil and Bob) or a pious, thundering bore...
...complicate matters, Senate Republican hawks want to kill the ABM treaty and vow to block ratification of the side agreements--even if it means bringing START to a full stop. That kind of logic--abandoning an accord that eliminates thousands of Russian ICBMs aimed at the U.S. to build a defense against rogue-state missiles that may not exist--mystifies arms-control proponents. Says Spurgeon Keeny Jr., president of the Arms Control Association: "Russia is still the only country that threatens the existence...