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Established during the 2001-2002 season, the Senior CLASS award is meant to honor players who buck the trend of leaving school early to enter the professional ranks and stay in school through their senior years...
Bush's offer to send Dole and a family member seemed aimed at both doing good and getting the best publicity for his charitable buck. Its rejection was unsurprising. Iranian parliamentary elections are Feb. 20, and dominant hard-line clerics are worried that friendly American behavior might aid reformers, who are less anti-Western than the conservatives. The Administration is left with the same sort of New Year's solace as its medical team: you heal the Baseejist not because he likes you but because he is another human being. And who knows? Somewhere down the line he may remember...
...smartest. Set up by long-haired owner and sommelier Ahn Joon-buem on his return from Paris, it's an oasis for live music, especially cool jazz. Even the barmen will treat you to impromptu licks on the guitar: the waiting staff are professional musicians earning an extra buck...
...PEARL S. BUCK, writing about the wife of the former Nationalist Chinese leader in LIFE magazine...
...generation as apathetic and dispassionate. Their volunteerism indicates otherwise; a study by the National Association of Secretaries of State shows that youth community service is at record levels and rising. But a more service-oriented youth will not bring down the debt, and politicians will continue to pass the buck to youth as long as they’re not looking. It’s time that American youth learned to approach good citizenship with a will for service in one hand and a ballot in the other; their checkbooks will thank them later...