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...most highly attended meetings of the year, the council passed Barber's bill with several amendments. The final version called for retaining the Radcliffe seal on women's diplomas but also maintained that Lewis' signature be added. Due to these amendments, the original sponsors withdrew their support before the bill passed...
Although Rubin never attended HBS, he enrolled at Harvard Law School in 1960, but promptly withdrew after only a few days on campus...
After his appointment as Dean of the Faculty in 1991, Knowles withdrew from research to focus on administrative duties. His last graduate student received her Ph.D...
...House, the legislative agenda is crammed with "pro-family" votes aimed at Dobson's constituency. Last week alone, the House voted to ban federal support of needle exchanges for drug addicts, passed a pilot program that would give public school children vouchers to attend private schools, and withdrew an $18 billion appropriation for the International Monetary Fund in a dispute with the Clinton White House over an antiabortion provision in a separate bill. And there's more to come. In June the House will consider Istook's Religious Freedom amendment to the Constitution, which would allow organized prayer in public...
...then the new Newt returned from his contrition tour promoting his book, Lessons Learned the Hard Way, and abruptly withdrew his support from the McCain effort, calling it "a big government, big bureaucracy" bill, language almost identical to the industry's. Had he suddenly bought into one of its most ludicrous arguments, that the price hike places an unfair burden on the poor, who smoke the most and, ironically, save the country money by dying early? Industry advocates contend that a smoker with a pack-a-day habit pays so much in cigarette tax and collects so much less...