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...September 1993, the undergraduate members ofthe Fly voted unanimously to admit women. Thegraduate boards agreed with their decision, butthen asked that they repeat the vote before the1994 fall punch season...
Albright is convinced that thousands needlessly lost their lives in the Bosnian civil war because the West dithered. She vowed not to repeat that mistake in Kosovo. But by last month it seemed that Washington was going to do just that. The unarmed peace monitors who had been sent to the province watched helplessly as the slaughter continued. Albright, nervous about the quickly deteriorating truce, persuaded President Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen to deploy peacekeepers, then cajoled European foreign ministers into giving Milosevic a two-week deadline to accept a peace agreement or face NATO bombing. On a trip...
...January 9, 1999 administration of the MECT, 95 percent of the students who were repeat test takers (i.e., had failed before) failed once again. So any variance in test scores isn't big enough, or consistent enough, to push some of these people over the passing threshold. These poor souls also apparently all had the bad luck to get a bad proctor and/or a faulty tape both times they took the test...
...This was true drama, the lordly versus the lowly--Princeton, the tanned veteran of countless NCAA campaigns, battling Harvard, the gritty upstart. For a brief spell near the end of regulation, the magic seemed wiped away, Princeton grabbing a 62-60 lead. Yet as things headed for a repeat of Friday's dismaying loss to Penn, Harvard--and its fans--rallied in the season's finest hour...
This was true drama, the lordly versus the lowly--Princeton, the tanned veteran of countless NCAA campaigns, battling Harvard, the gritty upstart. For a brief spell near the end of regulation, the magic seemed wiped away. Princeton grabbed a 62-60 lead. Yet as things headed for a repeat of Friday's dismaying loss to Penn, Harvard--and its fans--rallied in the season's finest hour...