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IRAN Student Shutdown Reformists in Tehran suffered another setback last week when police and religious hard-liners closed the offices of the country's largest student group. The organization, the Office for Fostering Unity, strongly supported moves by President Mohammed Khatami to ease some of Iran's strict social laws. The police moved in, they claimed, to quell disputes between rival groups of students after right-wingers in the southern city of Shiraz claimed to have won control of the organization's council...
...financial setback has motivated the CDT to work even harder to raise money and to perfect its routine in time for the tournament after spring break...
Coatsworth also said the students should not view Summers’ previous decision as a setback...
...clear road to the NCAA tournament as it has clinched a share of the crown. Cornell was the legitimate threat for the title, but now lies on the brink of elimination in the Ivy race after its loss to Harvard and a 78-71 setback to Dartmouth on Saturday night...
Originally kicked off campus as a result of the Vietnam War, the ROTC suffered a further setback in 1993 when the Faculty Council voted to stop funding for the MIT-based unit because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...