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When the teenage Carlos fell afoul of the Caracas police by joining the communist student movement, his father packed him off to London. The young man soon moved on to Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow's school for grooming Third World revolutionaries. There he proved a lazy chemistry student whose rich-kid antics prompted party officials to ask his father to cut young Ilyich's allowance. He fell in love with a Cuban woman, with whom he had a daughter. He lost touch with them, yet often referred to the woman as his "greatest love." In 1970 he was expelled...
Oddly, just as he was reaching a peak of power, Rostenkowski ran afoul of an investigation that started with postage stamps. One charge against him is that he took $21,000 from the House post office over two years by trading expense vouchers for cash instead of stamps, or for stamps later exchanged for cash. The investigation broadened to include accusations that Rostenkowski used campaign funds to rent a vacant office in a building he owned, put "ghost" employees on his payroll, and acquired ownership of cars he supposedly rented with expense money...
...species have coexisted for hundreds of thousands of years. Up until now, the big cat has always been extraordinarily adaptable and resilient. "All a tiger needs," says Schaller, "is a little bit of cover, some water and some prey." But the tiger has finally run afoul of mankind, an evolutionary classmate that has proved to be an even more resourceful killer. "What will it say about the human race if we let the tiger go extinct?" asks TRAFFIC's Ashok Kumar. "What can we save? Can we save ourselves...
...exactly the right time to fall afoul of the NCAA--again. With freshman Jeff Tory now sitting out the season under the guidelines of Proposition 48, Maine's academic casualty depth chart stands two-deep (with senior forward Cal Ingraham still serving a 14-game, transcript-related suspension...
Hate-speech regulations, intended to prohibit slurs against minorities, women and gays, have proved nettlesome for other universities. Courts have decreed that the codes at state schools such as the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin run afoul of the First Amendment. At many schools, hate-speech rules are on the books, but are not enforced...