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...scene, the reaction in Orlando may not be as negative as one would expect. In a poll in the Orlando Sentinel earlier this week, 90 percent of respondents said O'Neal was not worth the $115 million the Magic was offerring. Apparently the Lakers didn't agree. The signing caps a stunning seven-day stretch of megadeals that begs the question how much is too much? Chicago began the frenzy by signing Michael Jordan to a one-year $25 million deal. The Knicks then committed $151 million for a trio of players. Miami followed by spending more than $200 million...
Workers at the Detroit Free Press went on strike more than 11 months ago. Over 2,000 workers are still on strike, protesting such changes as the institution of individual merit pay and a cap to overtime...
...virtues, the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider, defeating the incumbent Martin Van Buren, who was accused of dandified dress and manners. One of Van Buren's more vocal detractors was Davy Crockett, who went from frontiersman to the U.S. Congress without ever trading in his coonskin cap for a top hat. (A century later, fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver won a Senate seat and a passel of presidential primaries when he made a coonskin cap his own symbol of country roots...
...worse would have been an attack led by House Republicans, who threatened to cap the Department of Education's Direct Student Loan program, from which Harvard's loan funds are processed, at 10 percent of total loan funds...
Granted, all of these expenditures are completely voluntary. But the pressure to conform--to avoid being the one to slow down the bandwagon--often sways students into opening their wallets. After all, no one absolutely has to walk in a cap and gown for Commencement exercises. That's not to say anyone would want to be wearing pink in a sea of solemn, black robes. And when your own classmates are asking you to pledge $10 to the Senior Class Gift so that your house's participation rate will best all the rest, how easy...