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...those seeking to avoid such a fashion mishap may want to follow the advice of graduate Adina Gerver ’02-’03, whose Commencement experienced heavy rains. An e-mail authored by Gerver last year was forwarded to the Pforzheimer open list this weekend...
...residents should also hang our heads in shame to live in a state ruled by a governor who has shown an Ahab-like obsession with preventing gays and lesbians from marrying. Gov. W. Mitt Romney sought an emergency stay on the Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling to avoid the day of reckoning that came on May 17. He also joined others in a push for the court to backtrack in favor of civil unions, in which same-sex couples would receive all the benefits of straight marriage without the name of “marriage?...
...that, Allawi's appointment has stirred up the kind of controversy the Administration and Brahimi hoped to avoid. An imposing secular Shi'ite who remains close to the U.S. intelligence community--the I.N.A. continues to receive CIA funding--Allawi is a reassuring figure to the White House, which hopes to maintain influence over Iraq's future through its ties to the new body's most powerful executive. The CIA has long backed him over his voluble rival, Ahmad Chalabi, to whom Allawi is related by marriage. A Brahimi aide claims that Allawi's appointment also received Sistani's blessing, which...
...Avoid all meats, oils, nuts, high-fat dairy, alcohol...
PRESTON: I look at deals, and I try to look at what I call the hype-to-substance ratio. If the hype is up here, and substance is down here, I avoid getting involved...