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...clamor from the opposing stands at The Game on Saturday may sound even weaker than usual. Yale officials said this week that the college has cut and will continue to reduce the size of its first-year class...
Soon after, another pillar of Milosevic's authority fell away. The protesters moved on to the tower home of Radio Television Serbia. It was not only the regime's crucial mouthpiece--without it Milosevic could not counter the clamor in the streets--but also its most despised tool. A special antiterrorist unit had been set in place to confront any trouble. These troops resisted longer, firing tear gas and a few stray bullets. But when the protesters drew up their excavator and set the entry on fire, overwhelmed troops scooted out the back. The broadcast--the only one seen regularly...
...storm, Callaway is fairly sanguine about the future of McNeely?s book. "We?re developing contingency publishing plans in the U.S. for the Clinton title." It?s even possible, Callaway concedes, that the clamor surrounding the book?s release could help sales, assuming the publisher can find a way to produce more copies. In the meantime, Callaway is left shaking his head bemusedly over the uproar. "We?ve gotten caught in some kind of customs crossfire...
That danger must seem remote to the starry-eyed lawmakers who have continued to clamor to visit the affluent Dulles corridor. In May alone, CapNet and its member companies were host to 44 members of the House and Senate in eight forays. The visitors included House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the nation's most prominent Republican, and three of the Senate's most prominent moderate Democrats--Evan Bayh of Indiana, Bob Graham of Florida and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. CapNet has specialized in educating rather than simply financing politicians. "We've had almost a hundred members of Congress...
Everywhere but here, it seems, the clamor for higher standards has driven schools to assign more and more homework. Grade-school children now average well in excess of two hours of homework a night, compared with 85 minutes in 1981, according to the University of Michigan. Last year the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons reported that thousands of kids have back, neck and shoulder problems from lugging heavy backpacks. At Beacon the books stay at school; each day Annie carries only her bright blue lunchbox...