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...junior in Lowell House said the combined cooperation of her room-mates and the house superintendent made it possible for her to keep a four-month-old Siamese cat named "C.P."--short for "Cuteness Personified...
...rule does not apply for proctors or tutors living on campus. Karen L. Heath '84, a senior advisor for the North Yard and a proctor in Mower, owns a one-year old cat named Natasha. She said the reason for the exception is not to frustrate students, but to protect pets...
...impressed. The common response of New Yorkers to the presence of the President in their city is not excitement but irritation. His motorcade is going to tie up traffic. He may think he's in town to address the United Nations or raise money at one of those fat-cat banquets at the Waldorf, but as far as New Yorkers are concerned, he is there to cause them aggravation. And why, as a matter of fact, is the United Nations in New York? Also to cause aggravation, this time by taking up a lot of curb space with diplomatic-plates...
...turned his attention to diplomacy, but said bluntly that he had no immediate hope for "fruitful negotiations." Despite a gut sense that both sides might be looking for a peaceful exit from the crisis, neither seemed prepared to give way on its basic -- and irreconcilable -- demands. "It's a cat-and-mouse game," said British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd in a remark about Saddam's treatment of the hostages. "Now a little mercy, now some more ruthlessness...
...concentrating its fury on one miscreant, the U.S. has sometimes overlooked or even pampered another, potentially greater source of trouble in the same region. The American obsession with Cuba as the Soviet cat's-paw in the Western Hemisphere was one factor that led Washington to support Panama's Manuel Noriega. As an anticommunist, Noriega qualified, in Franklin Roosevelt's famous phrase, as "our son of a bitch." Not until the cold war faded and the war on drugs escalated did Noriega earn his place on the CIA's dart boards and a one-way trip to Miami, where...