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Hammer says she also appreciates the background information about NGOs which Bhumi has provided...
...adds that "[Bhumi] certainly did some very good background checks on the regions they were sending people. Hopefully, through our new Center for International Development, we can help them get up-to-date information on issues in these countries...
...while some ethnic organizations insist that their members shouldn't be recruited on the basis of their background, other groups such as the Asian American Association (AAA) say they actively push their members become involved in other campus groups...
...undiscovered comets and asteroids. Using a 77-year-old telescope equipped with an electronic camera, he had recorded three sets of images, 30 min. apart, of a small sector of the night sky. The digitized images, fed into a computer programmed to look for objects moving against the background of fixed stars, revealed an asteroid that Scotti, in an E-mail to Marsden, described as standing out "like a sore thumb...
...Watergate. At a time when New Yorkers routinely spot Leonardo DiCaprio in person at Manhattan's trendiest nightspots, Ms. Lewinsky's reported social life does not extend beyond a quick handshake with William Safire at the Cosmos Club--a scene that will presumably be accompanied in the movie by background music from Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians...