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Underclass students are bearing the brunt as well. Some firms have chosen to cancel their summer internship programs...

Author: By Dana M. Scardigli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors Fall Victim To Shift in Economy | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...state of rebellion" in terms of which these people were arrested still requires that they be charged or released within three days. So the big question now is whether she'll go ahead with the election. A lot of the opposition politicians are thinking that she may decide to cancel the elections, in which case there would be a huge uproar. Either that or, if the elections go ahead, she may have made a colossal blunder that could play into the hands of the opposition claims that she?s hounding them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Crackdown May Have Been a 'Colossal Blunder' | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

...instant jillionaires of the tech-stock IPO boom, pledging lavish gifts to charities and universities was a way of parading both their compassion and their clout. But with the tech bubble gone poof, many of those same promises are worth about as much as dotcom-stock shares. Cancel that new dorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Times for Philanthropy | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...Senate floor debate over President Bush's budget kicked off Tuesday with the vice president's first tie-breaking vote, which determined the passage, 51-50, of an amendment - just trust us on this one - to cancel out another, Democratic amendment to slice off $158 billion of Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut for a prescription-drug addition to Medicare. (The GOP amendment found the money elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush's Tax Cut Got Taken Out to a Vermont Woodshed | 4/4/2001 | See Source »

...were to gain weight, the experience wouldn't be pleasant. Not only would weight gain cancel out all likelihood of ever fitting a mainstream wardrobe, but tall people don't actually get fat. Instead, they get big. There's a difference--tall women can never become round and curvy like shorter people do. Instead, they grow increasingly oversized. This is why the phrase "She's a tall girl" is much preferable to "She's a big girl." Please remember that...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Editor's Notebook: Being Tall | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

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