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Last week, the Senate irresponsibly voted down an amendment to this year’s omnibus energy bill that would have increased automobile gas mileage standards for the first time since 1985. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), would have raised the corporate average fuel efficiency—the average fuel efficiency for all autos sold in America—up from the current levels of 27 miles per gallon (mpg) for cars and 20.7 mpg for “light trucks.” Unfortunately, the powerful automobile...
DIED. MIKE DARR, 25, outfielder for the San Diego Padres; after the car he was driving hit an interstate-highway median; in Phoenix, Ariz. Following the loss of minor leaguer Gerik Baxter last summer, Darr became the second Padres player killed in a car crash in less than a year...
DIED. WAYLON JENNINGS, 64, gristly Grammy-winning country "outlaw" who recorded Nashville's first platinum album (Wanted: The Outlaws); of a diabetes-related illness; in Chandler, Ariz. With his black Stetson and brash persona, Jennings, along with Willie Nelson, led country's outlaw movement of the late '60s and early '70s--a honky-tonk response to country's slick pop sound. Perhaps best known for Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, he recorded 16 No. 1 singles. Once a bassist for Buddy Holly, Jennings was scheduled to be on the plane in 1959 that killed...
...Church dearly in moral authority is beginning to take a serious economic toll. In a landmark agreement in Ireland last week, the church offered $110 million to compensate thousands of victims of sexual and physical abuse that occurred over several decades in church-run schools there. Meanwhile, a Tucson, Ariz., diocese settled for an undisclosed sum with former altar boys who said they were molested by their priest, a quiet deal that typifies how these cases are handled in the U.S. Less common is the very public court battle of John Geoghan, a priest who has so far cost...
...artist has aspired to work as an editorial cartoonist, so as to focus his attention toward good use. While little of Collin’s work will depict the Faculty and staff as ducks or swans, it will focus on national, local and Harvard issues. Collin is from Tucson, Ariz...