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News Editor for This Issue: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Jeffrey S. Nordhaus '89 Robert J. Weiner '92 Editorial Editor: John C. Yoo '89 Feature Editors: David J. Barron '89 Brooke A. Masters '89 Sports Editors: Casey J. Lartigue '89 Michael D. Stankiewicz Photo Editor: Gavin R. Villareal '90 Copy Editor: Michael S. Berk...
...scared souls stubbed out cigarettes on the spot. Last week the Federal Government marked the 25th anniversary of that first alarm with a new Surgeon General's report that charts the progress in the war against tobacco. The past quarter-century has seen "a revolution in smoking behavior," declared C. Everett Koop, the current Surgeon General. "In the 1940s and '50s, smoking was chic; now, increasingly, it is shunned." But, he continued, tobacco is still "the single most important preventable cause of death, responsible for 1 out of every 6 deaths...
...spending a lot of time together. Barbara will not have to find a cause since she already has so many, in part as a result of events in her own life. Her son Neil's dyslexia first got her interested in fighting illiteracy. In 1984 she wrote a book, C. Fred's Story, a surprisingly wry look at Washington life as told by her first dog, after publisher Nelson Doubleday assured her it would be a good way to promote her literacy efforts. C. Fred could have been a disaster, but Barbara's wit and candor made it work...
...There are so many people and it could be so much louder," Bunny C said. "Such a minority of people cheer. People need leaders...
...problem with this loophole is that it provided a tremendous incentive for unscrupulous institutions to cheat. High schools were under pressure to give academically deficient athletes a C average so they would be eligible for athletic scholarships. Dishonest colleges could make partial qualifiers eligible by enrolling them in gut courses. So Proposition 48 only hurt the schools that were honest enough not to take advantage...