Word: program
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Iran?s reform movement may have taken an eight-count, but it could still win on points. Though student protesters have been driven back onto campus to pursue "legal and democratic" channels to express their grievances, the reform program of President Mohammed Khatami ? which the students wholeheartedly, if impatiently, support -- remains the key threat to the power of the mullahs. For political and economic reasons, they can?t afford to completely close down the troublesome reformer...
...need to maintain a balance. And despite the disappointment of many democracy-minded students over Khatami?s condemnation, he and the students continue to share the same goals. "Iran?s students are not trying to overthrow Khatami?s government," says Dowell. "They?re trying to spur on its reform program and defend it from conservative attack...
After forty years as a traditional folk club and restaurant, Harvard Square's Club Passim is striving to become a one-stop acoustic superstore, complete with musical lessons, historical archives and a multicultural arts program...
...farm in Cornish, N.H., Gore announced a federal grant of over $800,000 to aid the Connecticut River as part of the American Heritage River initiative--a program created in 1997 to provide federal funds to restore and preserve rivers of national significance...
...worst cardio-fitness program in this century was that of Egypt's King Farouk. The King weighed around 300 lbs.; he looked like an immense, saturnine party balloon. Staples of the royal diet: a few tablespoons of caviar, lobster thermidor, slabs of roast lamb, a cubic meter or so of trifle, a pound of chocolate, a magnum of champagne. Workout: two or three dancers from the chorus...