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Most notably, the new guidelines would allow "Harvard researchers to accept confidential information from sponsors if the acceptance and use of the information will not inhibit the exchange of information on the research conducted at Harvard or limit the ability of students to publish and discuss their research." This would be subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty or a designee...
...chair of the Democratic National Committee. Grossman could clearly outspend either Birmingham or Finneran in a campaign, but if one of the candidates could gain public funding in addition to private contributions, it would improve his chances. The Boston Globe reported that Birmingham was pressuring the administration to quietly accept the changes, no doubt looking forward two years to the upcoming race...
After Julius Erving retired and Moses Malone was traded, the young Barkley was forced to accept both a leadership role and the fact that he was the only star on the team. He always made the All-Star team, but his Sixers teams never went far in the playoffs. In 1992 Barkley took his game and by then infamous outspoken comments to Phoenix...
...mayhem was ecumenical. You had your one-world paranoids, who stay up nights fretting that David Rockefeller, the Trilateral Commission and a Wall Street cabal run the world through such shell organizations as the WTO. And you had your apolitical Luddites, who refuse to accept that growth, prosperity and upward living standards always entail some dislocation. A century ago, they tried to destroy the satanic mills of industrializing Europe. Today they want to stop the global redistribution of labor, in which previously starving Third World peasants get their start with low-paying industrial jobs while First World workers shift...
Bill Clinton will be pleased; so will Greece and even Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan - but being accepted as a candidate member of the European Union may be a mixed blessing for Turkey's leaders. The European Union voted Friday to accept Turkey as a candidate member, conditional on it's improving its human rights record and accepting the binding arbitration of the International Court of Justice at the Hague in its long-running dispute with Greece over Cyprus. "This is good news for the U.S. because Turkey is NATO's front line in relation to Russia and the Caucasus...