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...fraternities are coming!" echoed off the ivy-covered walls of this hallowed institution, and students cowered in fear of the imminent invasion of hordes of drunken frat boys. In fact, this school is so rabidly anti-fraternity that admitting you like them (or--gasp--belong to one) is almost akin to admitting to a loathsome disease...
...Byers to admit that is somewhat akin to Pope John Paul II recanting his stance on women in the priesthood. Byers' recent change of heart, set forth in his book, Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes (University of Michigan Press), came with his realization that "the wheel of fortune is badly unbalanced in favor of the overseers and against the players." His call has been taken up by coaches, administrators, journalists and the athletes themselves. Some of the more radical proponents of change wonder openly about the possibility of a strike on, say, the eve of the championship game in basketball...
...This may be precisely what Yeltsin and his entourage had in mind. At the price of frequent political embarrassment and perhaps some cost to Yeltsin's chances of recovery, they suppressed news of his ill health long enough for the country to enter what is by Russian standards something akin to political normality. Six months ago, after all, the favorites to succeed Yeltsin were people like Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov or nationalist extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The main contenders now, Chernomyrdin and Lebed, or perhaps Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, are less menacing to Russia's post-communist ruling class...
Michael J. Hrnicek '96, who tried to bring BCC groups to the campus during his college career, said the administration's rationale behind the PBHA compromise is akin to tyranny of the majority...
Holbrooke's piece is akin to Robert McNamara's and Henry Kissinger's self-serving pronouncements and Monday-morning quarterbacking as to their roles in Southeast Asia. The real, original tragedy labeled Bosnia is the bumbling dismemberment of formerly confederated Yugoslavia. A worldly wise Swiss friend of mine, who has lived in both the Balkans and the Middle East, made an interesting comparison: In Lebanon an imperfect but very livable and prosperous Swiss-type status quo prevailed for years, providing Christians, Muslims, Druzes and others breathing space and give-and-take ethnoreligious integrity. But recently that harmony has ceased...