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Marianne remained a holdout; by Monday she and her husband could barely discuss the subject. That's when the Speaker asked Washington wise man Ken Duberstein, who had been urging Gingrich to pay the fine for weeks, to lend a hand. Duberstein gently told a sometimes tearful Marianne that her husband would be crushed politically if he didn't pay the debt himself, now or on installment. He said Dole's generous offer gave the Speaker a long time to make the payment--and would buy Gingrich time to consolidate his shaky position in the House. "There...
...construction in Quincy Square is finally ending. In front of The Inn At Harvard we find quite a beautiful little park--thankfully sedate--which we would like to call Quincy Park. It is a work of granite built on top of the brick sidewalks of Cambridge; its street-wise ramps and stone benches will make it a pleasant part of the environment. In addition, a recently installed row of two-pronged cast-iron street lamps has lent a sense of Victorian charm to Mass...
...like we are very much the same people. We span East Coast to West Coast, from New York to Oregon. People-wise and interestwise and belief-wise, we are very diverse...
...ranks of a scandal-infested glorified dance committee to a moderately productive forum for the debate of campus issues and the advancement of student interests. It still has a long way to go if it is to have legitimacy in the eyes of students, however, and its members were wise to create the UCRC earlier this semester...
...women and their doctors, early detection of breast cancer has always had a crapshoot quality to it. Regular mammograms seem like a wise precaution, but the tests may be expensive and unreliable--and in a very small number of cases, may actually help stir up the very disease they're designed to spot. Neglecting mammography can be even riskier, giving an incipient tumor a chance to take hold and grow. This year the confusion only increased, with the medical community clamoring for clarity just as various cancer advisory groups issued conflicting guidelines...