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Four weeks ago, in a gross flouting of College rules and state laws, a brawl erupted at the D.U. final club between a football recruit and club members. High school senior John Burnham, who sustained a blow-out fracture on his left eye in the fight, never should have been at the club. Moreover, the subsequent hush-up of the incident again suggests that College officials prefer minimizing publicity to exacting appropriate punishments from blameworthy students...
...began to take my new life very seriously. I took sides in the religious wars over the differences between PCs and Macs. I expressed opinions about everything. I even started an altercation that dragged half of West Coast cyberspace into an electronic brawl and got myself banished from the WELL. (They let me back two months later.) I moved on to the big commercial services: CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, Delphi and America Online, as well as half a dozen Internet systems. I had more user IDs (electronic addresses) than I sometimes had dollars in my bank account...
Nobody got murdered that night. The guys in Hootie would rather get into an extended jam than a barroom brawl. And the band's burgeoning success seems to indicate that it's got far more fans than redneck detractors. The quartet's absorbing debut album, Cracked Rear View, has become an unexpected commercial smash, selling more than a million copies. Hold My Hand, a catchy sing-along number from the album, is in Billboard's Top 10. The music-video channel VH-1-once seen as a kind of easy-listening, out-of-touch uncle of MTV-recently changed...
Most of the stars stand to lose millions if the don't play. Cal Ripken's consecutive games streak, which has survived over a decade of games and one bench-clearing brawl, appears to be nearing...
...effort to atone for a national epidemic of stadium violence that resulted in the murder of a football fan. Authorities canceled all national sporting events scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 5, after Genoa supporter Vincenzo Spagnolo was knifed to death the previous Sunday in a brawl before his team's game against Milan. Though Milan booster Simone Barbaglia, 18, has been charged with Spagnola's death, many Italians feel the crime typifies a nationwide trend of rising violence. Said Enrico Spigone, 30, a Lazio rooter: ``The problem isn't the fans. The problem is violence in general in society. Neither...