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Last spring, D’Alessandro proposed a consolidation plan for merging several elementary schools and creating middle schools. But she withdrew it when parents—and even committee members—protested that the plan had taken them by surprise...
Hart eventually withdrew his bid for the presidency, after an ensuing media debacle, leaving the first George Bush a clear path to the White House...
Alliance with hell is justified as long as it is temporary. When Hitler was defeated, we stopped coddling Stalin. Forty years later, as communism ebbed, the U.S. helped overthrow Marcos and ease out Pinochet. We withdrew our support for those dictators once the two conditions that justify such alliances had disappeared: the global Soviet threat had receded and a domestic democratic alternative had emerged...
...instead of hundreds of thirsty students downing Scorpion Bowls to celebrate Harvard Student Agency’s (HSA) 30th anniversary—as HSA had advertised in e-mails sent to House lists—there were few students in the crowd after the group withdrew its sponsorship of the party...
...legislator—leads current polls. She is followed closely by Warren E. Tolman, a former state legislator, Robert B. Reich, a Brandeis University professor and former secretary of labor and Thomas F. Birmingham’72, president of the state senate. (Steven Grossman is also listed, though he withdrew from the race in July...