Word: withdrawals
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...position on ROTC. The campaign of John F. Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07, the target of these accusations, was also accused of attempting to convince rival ticket Magnus Grimeland ’07 and Thomas D. Hadfield ’08 to withdraw from the race.With former frontrunners Voith and Gadgil embroiled in controversy, John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie M. Riley ’07 won an easy victory. We had gingerly endorsed Voith and Gadgil on the basis of their platform, but we rescinded that endorsement before...
...Iraq. These dark moments--indiscriminately bombarding German civilians in World War II, mowing down Vietnamese peasants at My Lai--do not necessarily diminish the rightness of the cause for which we fight. For Americans, in whom isolationism runs deep, it is perhaps reflexive to feel revulsion and want to withdraw from conflicts and commitments where young Americans can do evil things...
...response to the rising number of applicants. “It will not do to say that Harvard College will concentrate on quality of education as a problem separate from large numbers,” the report said. “Such a decision would simply withdraw Harvard from the main educational problem of our time: how to present a high quality of education to unheard-of numbers of able students.”The vision for an expanded campus that Pusey outlined in 1956 included a health services facility, more classrooms, a behavioral sciences building, and three new undergraduate...
...should we assume this urge to withdraw is only a conservative tactic. In the state of Nebraska, the only black member of the state legislature is Ernie Chambers. Ernie is so liberal that a colleague in the legislature said, ?Ernie sees racism when he pours his breakfast cereal.? But Ernie Chambers recently pushed through a new bill that carves Omaha?s school district into three-a black district, a white district, and a Hispanic district. He thinks this will protect black schools from being cheated of their fair share of bond proceeds. He also says black families should decide what...
...troops] not to come any closer so we can talk," Reinado says. "They don't stop. So I give them a countdown or I shoot. They keep coming, so I shoot." Outnumbered and outgunned, he and eight of his men fought for nine hours before managing to withdraw into the steep hills, beyond the reach of government forces. One man was badly wounded, and died on the way back to Aileu...