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...provide their residents with a good alternative to trudging over to the MAC with exercise bikes, treadmills and weight sets. I, however, recently stumbled upon the Winthrop House “gym,” which sadly consists of a forlorn and forgotten dumbbell in the corner of a basement used for student storage...
...want to relinquish their parental rights. At a time when the failure of the classic child-welfare system is grabbing headlines across the country (a little girl missing for 15 months in Florida before officials even noticed; a young boy dead and his brothers starving in a New Jersey basement), some social workers are pushing shared family care as a possible solution. Results from the small studies that have been done are promising: children whose parents complete the program are only half as likely to re-enter the child-welfare system as those whose families reunite after foster care...
...fair to say that Ross Perot's crazy aunt is back. In the 1992 campaign, the folksy, jug-eared Texas zillionaire rode public anxiety over the stagnant economy - specifically the burgeoning national debt he compared to a crazy aunt in the basement no one wanted to mention - to the best third-party showing in a presidential election in 80 years. Budget deficits became such a potent political issue that Bill Clinton was forced to abandon much of his economic agenda so he could push through a deficit-reduction plan in 1993. A year later, a pledge to cut spending...
...return of massive deficits? If he crushes Saddam Hussein swiftly - and, most importantly, if the economy rebounds - probably not. Otherwise, expect the economic debate in 2004 to sound a lot like the one in 1992, complete with references to a certain crazy aunt living in the nation's basement...
...security guard at Lamont library who wishes to remain anonymous is sure the “name doesn’t ring a bell.” He’s referring to a not-so-cryptic message in the far corner of the basement microfiche cage in Lamont, one floor below the most subterranean study carrels. The message warns late-night users of a certain “Mad Jack.” Despite the words of this self-proclaimed “well-wisher,” the guard thinks Jack’s a joke. He says...