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That kind of calculation was not exactly what the President's staff had in mind when they planned the week-long, multistate health-care blitz. The goal was to jump-start the Administration plan while Congress was out of session -- and in the process put the President back on offense after weeks of answering Whitewater charges. One group of Democratic lobbyists and public relations executives who "want action, not gridlock; problem solving, not partisan bashing" even announced the formation of the Back to Business Committee to make sure that crime and welfare reform and health care did not get drowned...
Other topics, which are beyond my abilities to cover, would be delegated to special guest lecturers. For example, before reading Dean Mackay-Smith's comments in the article, I was not aware that failing to do a week-long assignment until the night before it was due (when the student was sufficiently exhausted) constituted extenuating circumstances which justify copying someone else's work, especially if the offending student is later appalled at what he or she did. This yields a fertile new area for research. As a friend of mine pointed out, the same logic should let her murder somebody...
...group, organized by seven undergraduates, aims to raise $50,000 in a week-long fundraising blitz by asking Harvard students for donations in every house and first-year dorm...
Sixteen members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dance Club traveled to Clearwater, Florida for the week-long series of events, running from January 4 through January...
...Jabaliya, the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and the birthplace of the anti-Israeli intifadeh, Aziz's family and friends raised a tent for week-long mourning ceremonies. A militant wearing a black hood wielded an ax painted red. let slaughtering the jews be our road to paradise, read a banner on the tent. "We are jealous of Anwar," said one of Aziz's friends. "We feel like cowards because we have not yet done the same thing...