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...HOUSE OF Representatives joined the Senate last week in caving into the demands of a big lobby with big bucks, passing a National Rifle Association-sponsored bill to drastically weaken gun control. The vote in the House is as much a comment on the way Congress does business as it is a comment on the power...
...unfortunate, I suppose, that a large majority of Harvard-students would rather attend the Harvard-Cornell game than a piccolo concerto, but I can't think of a reasonable solution to this problem. An administrative decision to weaken the Harvard hockey team in order to increase attendance at "weightier" events strikes me as a tad unresponsive to student interests. Harvard does have an obligation to recruit piccolo players and to provide them with adequate facilities and instruction. I assume that it does...
...firm, is that "it takes time for lower oil prices to be reflected in the thousands of products derived from oil." Agrees Paul Christopherson, an analyst for Bear, Stearns, a Wall Street investment firm: "The price of the paraxylene that Celanese uses to make polyester has just begun to weaken. It takes a while for the market to figure out how far down derivative prices must go." For Detroit, the big question is how the oil-price decline will affect car-buying habits. Most industry experts do not expect a sharp shift toward big cars. They believe that the sticker...
Malone claimed that the fight will not weaken the party but will strengthen it. "Quiet following is not what is necessary to make a strong party. Competition in politics is what makes a party grow. The party needs a jump start and this has woken a lot of people...
...outright evidence for the viability of the report's first premise thereby reinstates the validity of its later claims and the legitimacy of its call for change. Consequently, rather than reveal dissension, Zayas reveals foundation; intending to weaken the power of the report, he strengthens it. I, and hopefully anybody else who stands behind the TWSA report, thank Richard Zayas. Jose Razo...