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ALTHOUGH there are other singing groups on campus, the a cappella groups reap the most publicity and support. They certainly have the most money; they love to brag about their spring trips to the Caribbean or "around the world." Why do they have to come back...
Recruiting posters of smiling female sailors in blue-and-white uniforms tout the Navy as a great career for women. What they don't brag about is the charges that have been leveled at the Navy for the way it treats many women. Now a report by the Navy's Inspector General has targeted the sprawling Orlando Naval Training Center, which includes the only boot camp for women, as the site of repeated infractions. During the 18-month period ending in June, the report said, there were at least six cases of rape of women at Orlando -- and no prosecutions...
...while both sides pronounced that the deal was the best that could be achieved in the current political climate, it was nothing to brag about. The compromise will slow but not arrest the tide of red ink that is washing over the nation. Even after the accord goes into effect, the deficit for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1 is expected to soar to $254 billion, not counting the estimated $1 billion a month the government is spending on its military forces in the Persian Gulf. Every citizen's share of the $3 trillion national debt will rise...
...only is it too expensive to live in Manhattan, but everything is too big and tall for small children," she says. Whenever they can, however, she and her family take advantage of New York's theaters, museums and zoos, those "good things" about the city that native New Yorkers brag about -- but are often too busy to enjoy...
...Harvard wants to continue to brag about the diversity of the performing arts on campus, it needs to put its money where its mouth...