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Redmond's single biggest issue, she says, is that of the student voice--according to her, students are rarely included in decision-making on campus, even when it directly affects them...
...after Thanksgiving, lead with the (mostly) good news: We're still flush. The evidence is both statistical (personal income rose 1.3 percent in October, the biggest monthly jump in nearly five years) and anecdotal (thousands nationwide lined up as early as Thursday nightto be first in line at discount stores Friday morning for all those $45 VCRs and $99 TVs). Confronted with surging stock markets, shrinking unemployment and virtually nonexistent inflation, retailers - and e-tailers - could be forgiven for feeling especially confident that in the next five weeks they will surpass even last year's whopping $170 billion in sales...
...biggest problem at the half for the Crimson was in-the-paint offense. Center Melissa Johnson had only four points, while senior forward Laela Sturdy, averaging 18 points per game, had none...
...report indicating that all is not well among the races in the American military. "The power of your example," cooed Clinton to the troops in Kosovo, "will show [the Kosovars] that they do not have to be trapped in the pattern of slaughter. You are a rebuke to the biggest problem in the world." Yet reports of the Pentagon study, released Tuesday, painted an ugly picture of minorities being promoted more slowly in the military than whites, experiencing more incidents of racial harassment and having little faith that their complaints of harassment will be diligently processed...
...Well, the wine gurus at Sotheby's and Christie's, auction houses to the kind of people who can afford $200 sips, think New Year's Eve 1999 is probably about as likely an occasion as will ever come along. So this week they're uncorking two of the biggest wine auctions in history. The headline grabber is the Sotheby's auction, which features more than $10 million worth of wine, all from the cellar of a single European collector. "We can't reveal his identity," says Sotheby's Michael Davis. "Let's just say he's a great connoisseur...