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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...There are grievance procedures followed by the University," Moriarty said. "The Docket Committee is empowered to dismiss grievances that are clearly without merit. They did so find and did so act...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala and Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Berkowitz, Harvard Face Off In Court | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

...poster child for corporate responsibility - and a darling of the environmental movement, members of which are pointing to Ford's latest maneuvers as a sign that the very dirty car industry can, in fact, be cleaned up. And Wednesday, when Ford insiders leaked news that the company will actually act on those good intentions by increasing the average fuel economy on its SUVs, environmentalists raised the Ford banner ever higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good-bye Gas-Guzzler, Hello Super-Sipper | 7/27/2000 | See Source »

...Gore campaign, on the other hand, may be only too happy to highlight the Cheneys' collective unyielding conservatism - if only to emphasize the rift between an increasingly centrist American electorate and the hard-right tendencies of the couple George W. Bush has chosen to act as presidential proxies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Lady-in-Waiting: Asset or Liability? | 7/26/2000 | See Source »

...tickets to cabdrivers and hotel employees to help kick-start the buzz. It worked: the show is doing better than 90% of capacity, and surveys reveal that more than 20% of those who attend are locals--who don't come to the Strip for just any washed-up Motown act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pipe Dreams on the Strip | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...serve non-minority users in wealthier areas. Quote: "The Bus Riders Union is challenging the failure of President Clinton and presidential nominee Gore to enforce, strengthen and increase the civil rights law at the federal level... We demand that Vice President Gore strengthen Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act. What we would like to see is for the federal government to start taking seriously the enforcement of Title 6... when a state agency is spending its funds in a racially discriminatory manner that it (the federal government) will cut funds to the agency... there's fed money coming into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where There's Pols, There's Pyres | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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