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...frosh weekend happened to take place at the height of last spring's problems certainly didn't encourage prospective Black first-years to choose Harvard over another school--a competing institution that not only may have offered a more positive interracial environment, but a fatter scholarship check to boot...
...know how much you'd want to do that. They look more like a roller blading boot than anything else, certainly no a stylish shoe...
...lifted, all South Central's Golden Arches were back up and running, feeding fire fighters, police and National Guard troops as well as burned-out citizens. The St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary School, with 300 hungry students and no utilities, called for lunches and got them free -- with delivery to boot...
...Pittsburgh Penguins' clean sweep of the Chicago Blackhawks in last week's National Hockey League finals brought to a close the most turbulent season in the 75 years of the N.H.L. -- including a 10-day players' strike and an owners' attempt to boot out league president John Ziegler for insufficient p.r. savvy. But nobody noticed: everyone was tuned into the N.B.A. play-offs...
Trouble is, the country's penal system is already moving toward increased compartmentalization, creating separate drug-treatment facilities, boot camps for young offenders, women's prisons complete with secure apartments in which children can live with their mothers. Some see in the longer mandatory sentences handed out these days a need for special accommodations in prisons for the elderly and sick who require therapy, medication, wider cell doors for wheelchairs, even Braille signs on doors...