Word: statement
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Following a two-hour community meeting on Friday morning, Harvard Hillel's Coordinating Committee issued a statement yesterday about its position...
...addition to mourning the death of the two Israeli soldiers killed last week and calling for the return of all missing Israeli soldiers, the statement called for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to "end the violence...
...major issues on the table. Gore repeated his commitment to the Kyoto protocol, vowed to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil exploration and argued that environmental protection and economic growth can go hand in hand. Gore also affirmed that he still believed in the statement he made in Earth in the Balance; the protection of the environment must be made the simple organizing principle for civilization and "there must be a wrenching transformation to save the planet." But in the face of soaring gas prices, Gore took back his 1992 call for energy taxes and instead emphasized...
...especially since Russia remained so sympathetic toward the defeated Milosevic. The RU 486 question tied him in knots. He didn't want to remind such a large audience that his official position on abortion is to recriminalize it if he can change enough hearts. So he fudged his earlier statement that he would seek to overturn approval of the drug, saying a President is powerless to do so against the Food and Drug Administration. He got lost in a hypothetical financial crisis and said he would hug his way out of a domestic one. On his signature...
...Before even glancing at grades or test scores, admissions officers at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, rate a student's personal statement. That first impression can color the whole discussion. The committee, for example, issued a swift rejection to a student whose essay was riddled with typos. After reading a moving tale of how one student bonded with a Chilean immigrant struggling to educate his children, assistant dean Debbie DeVeaux went to bat for the applicant: "I love this guy. I hope you love him as much...