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...vied for the Baldrige when in fact only 97 had applied, and that the Commerce Department had praised Cadillac's engine, an assertion questioned by Commerce itself. GM also caught flak for several overly flattering paraphrases of a government handout accompanying the award. The 167,000 applicants are now absent from GM's ads, but the corporation stands by everything else and is meeting with the state's attorneys to resolve the dispute...
...rape will prevail in court. "Juries don't have a great deal of sympathy for the victim if she's a willing participant up to the nonconsensual sexual intercourse," says Norman Kinne, a prosecutor in Dallas. "They feel that many times the victim has placed herself in the situation." Absent eyewitnesses or broken bones, a case comes down to her word against his, and the mythology of rape rarely lends her the benefit of the doubt...
...Notably absent from the list of Ivy honorees was junior netminder Chris Miller, an All-Ivy honorable mention last year. Despite the Crimson's poor 2-4 Ivy record, Miller had the third highest save percentage, .637, in league competition this season...
...thing about frats is the people in them," he said. "We have a great mix of people, and the common theme is that we are all looking for this sense of camaraderie often absent at Harvard...
...youngsters in families with a history of high cholesterol or heart disease will miss as many as 50% of children with a serious cholesterol problem. Among the reasons: parents are often unaware of their own cholesterol level, and many children live in homes where either the parents are absent or where parents and even grandparents are so young that heart disease is not yet evident...