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...instance, look at the Final Clubs. Generally hesitant to draw too much attention, they have increasingly decided to take it to the streets. College officials admit a marked increase in "public nuisance" incidents this fall related to punch season. Most students couldn't avoid seeing lads in tuxedos or long johns, singing, pirouetting and beating on kegs or drums. And of course the murky "Big WAC Attack" is still making headlines...
They also point out that very few students are truly excluded by their application processes: most closed departments have a "second round" admissions procedure and admit well over half of the applicants...
...want people to come in and drown andstruggle," says Harrington. "It's kind of a falsekindness if you admit people [who aren't able todo the work...
...heard Assad say a word they've been waiting to hear -- normal -- then refuse to define it. They fear they will end up giving away strategically crucial territory in return for little more than a cold cessation of hostilities. Officials read heavy meaning into Syria's initial refusal to admit Israeli journalists to the Geneva press conference. Even after Clinton sent two emissaries to Jerusalem to explain his belief that Assad's "normal" actually meant the open borders, tourism, free trade and diplomatic relations Israel seeks, Rabin was unconvinced. "The Americans were stretching things to try to convince themselves...
...matter how much Western analysts support Russian economic changes, they have to admit the reformers have not proved themselves as politicians. Yeltsin chose to play the good czar in the December elections, remaining above politics. His lack of leadership allowed the reform forces to fragment and be swamped by such simplistic nationalists as Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Since the election Yeltsin has remained mostly out of sight, and when he appears in public, he seems stiff and slow moving...