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...virtual master's degree; the University of Chicago and Columbia, among others, have signed up with the Internet start-up UNext.com to create a for-profit online college. Saylor's announcement ups the ante considerably. He is banking on replacing the world's "10,000 average professors" with an all-star faculty (think Bill Clinton and Henry Kissinger), all of whom he expects to teach pro bono...
...producer Dana Lowey Luttway anointed her son Daniel Henri "the king of spit-up" but was inspired by his daily rejections to create her first invention: the ParentSmock, a cotton bib made for parents, with cute expressions including DAD'S SPIT'N IMAGE, BURP ME, I'M YOURS and ALL-STAR DRIBBLER...
ENGAGED. ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, Russian tennis starlet, to Russian hockey pro PAVEL BURE, 28; in Miami. Kournikova, who won her first Grand Slam title (in doubles) in last year's Australian Open, lives in the same Miami Beach apartment building as the Florida Panther All-Star...
SUSPENDED. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 37, Yankees' designated hitter who tested positive for cocaine in January; for one year, by commissioner Bud Selig; in Tampa, Fla. It is his third suspension for drug use in five years. Two days after the ruling, the eight-time All-Star checked into a rehabilitation clinic...
...being a huge waste of water and space. Hockey and football have muscle-bound players you wouldn't want to meet in an open square, let alone a dark alley. Baseball can be scary too--just think back to John Kruk's reaction when meeting Randy Johnson at the All-Star Game--it is simply a game where a normal guy can get up there, on more than any given Sunday, and have a chance against the league's best. The lyric "Put me in coach/ I'm ready to play today" is about baseball for a reason...