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Unfortunately, Harvard students won't be joining the party until classes are over. Apparently neither Evacuation Day nor the luck o' the Irish will convince the administration to cancel classes for the day. All too typically, presented with an incontrovertible excuse to let students loose from the monotonous schedule of readings and response papers, the administration has decided that students would gain more from another day of classes than from a day of carousing...
...Entitled Jubilee 2000, the debt relief campaign is a massive international program that aims to convince creditors, such as the U.S., to cancel the huge debts which developing nations accumulated over the past 30 years. Sachs has been a proponent of such a program since 1985, but Bono is certainly Jubilee's most famous spokesman. More than the latest chic cause for New York socialites, this group maintains fervid academic clout--especially after Sachs joined last year. "When Jubilee 2000 came to the fore they asked me if I could help," he said. "Bono and I spent...
...times. In response to the outcry over his past, Rockwell went on TV to insist, "At no time have I ever struck any of my girlfriends, ever, for any reason." His bride Darva Conger followed with her own round of TV interviews, vowing to get an annulment. Meanwhile, Fox canceled plans for any future editions of Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? and swore off all such exploitative shows in the future. (CBS said it has no plans to cancel two controversial real-life series it has in the works, Survivor and Big Brother...
...sounds like a poor man's Bob Dylan (who incidentally appears on "Gotta Serve Somebody," but is crushed by the weight of excessive percussion). Similarly, the Eurythmic's "I've Tried Everything," from their post-reunion days, seems entirely out of place. The good seems to cancel out the bad, and the result is middling success...
...prevent Austria from forming a coalition government that includes the party of right-wing politician Jorg Haider, but perhaps the grumblings of a citizenry that has been denied the musical stylings of Sting will prove more effective. He reportedly will follow Lou Reed and cancel Austrian concert dates to protest Haider's policies. Earlier this month, the lead singer of the band Bush chanted a Jewish prayer during a concert in Graz, and the London Times reports some artists are thinking of planning a "Rock Against Haider" boycott. Native son ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER expressed concern, saying, "I am hopeful that Austria...