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...There was no debate so far as I could ascertain as to who their spokesman was to be--Miss Hillary Rodham," said Ruth M. Adams, then-president of Wellesley College, in a prelude to Clinton's speech...
...recreate the night of March 28, 1998. Three individuals are throwing rocks off of the roof of 128 Mass. Ave., endangering the lives of pedestrians passing by the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton Street. Harvard police approach the scene of the crime but quickly ascertain they will need to call in the fire department for a ladder to reach the roof of the club...
...students in the court of public opinion. A different issue would have been presented had the safety of the community been at stake, but with Mr. Elster under arrest there was no question of public safety. (We had also done our best, before charges had been pressed, to ascertain that Mr. Elster was not a community danger--though our freedom of legal operation during that interval would have been very limited...
Critics contend, however, that with a little basic research, buyers like Searle and his Art Institute advisers can readily ascertain a work of art's true origins. In many cases, dealers known to have bought or sold art for the Nazis turn up in a work's chain of custody, a red flag signaling a potentially looted object. In the case of Searle's Degas, German dealer Hans Wendland, who operated all but openly as a fence disposing of the Nazi trove, apparently transferred the painting during the war. "It's just obvious that people buying art need...
...serving as Columbia's vice chairman and was growing increasingly disenchanted with Scott's leadership, wasted no time in signaling his willingness to cooperate with federal investigators. Frist said he was "dead serious" about addressing Washington's concerns and would launch at least three internal probes this week to ascertain whether company managers had broken any laws...