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...ring deal—a juxtaposition which council member Jason L. Lurie ’05 rightly called “bribery.” In last week’s arguments, other representatives criticized the bill and Vice President Michael R. Blickstead ’05 withdrew his sponsorship for a modified bill because it “prostitut[ed] an idea to other companies.” But what Blickstead fails to recognize is that this project would not only turn our representatives into ring prostitutes, it would distract them from working on important matters of student interest...
...withdrew from classes last March and moved to Paris to improve his sketch artwork. “I stopped playing because I found myself no longer able to suppress my creative capacities,” Schaffer wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson last year...
...also going after former Iraqi officials who have purloined funds they once controlled. One was Saddam's ambassador to Moscow during the U.S. invasion. A senior U.S. government official tells TIME that the ambassador planned to make off with $4 million kept in embassy bank accounts. He allegedly withdrew the cash, used it to buy certificates of deposit in his wife's name and apparently hoped to fade away. But the U.S. government got wind of his scheme and asked Russian officials to freeze the suspect accounts. His alleged kitty will be sent to the Development Fund for Iraq, which...
Some council members, including Blickstead—who withdrew his name from sponsorship of the bill after it was amended—said it was unethical to use HSA’s proposal as leverage in negotiations with other companies...
...think he's nuts." GERALD MCENTEE, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, who withdrew his endorsement of Dean and says he unsuccessfully urged Dean to drop out of the race before the Wisconsin primary...