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...cream is consistently good too, and for a local treat order it up in a fresh-baked brioche. But if you really came looking for trouble, and have an afternoon to kill, hop a bus to Corleone, a 90-minute ride outside Palermo. In the hillside town that gave birth to the Godfather novels and films, you can visit a Mafia museum and - if you look hard enough - see some real-life mobsters still cruising around...
Kirkland House security guard by night, and math whiz by night, too, Bob Butler has become notorious for asking random river-area pedestrians for the day, month and year of their birth. Those who oblige are rewarded with an immediate calculation of which day of the week they were born...
...Princeton loss or tie combined with Crimson victories over Dartmouth (10-3-1, 4-1) and Columbia (5-7-2, 0-2-1) would clinch Harvard a share of the Ivy title and an automatic birth for the NCAAs...
Jem’s greatest contribution, however, was her ability to show young girls they could exert influence in the world that was the 1980s. Jem came out just four years after the birth of MTV, and her cartoon show demonstrated that female-dominated bands could have kick-ass rock videos. The hour-long show was specked with music video sequences, each one carrying the mark of MTV. Even Starlight Records was a beacon of hope to young women. Through her work as Jerrica the CEO, Jem showed young girls that the booming big business world...
...questions. If Hager becomes chairman of the 11-member Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, he will lead its study of hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women, one of the biggest controversies in health care. Some conservatives are trying to use doubts about such therapy to discredit the use of birth-control pills, which contain similar compounds. The panel also made the key recommendation in 1996 that led to approval of the "abortion pill," RU-486--a decision that abortion foes are still fighting. Hager assisted the Christian Medical Association last August in a "citizens' petition" calling upon...