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...response to a 5.7 percent fall in the college’s endowment last year, Dartmouth cut its athletic budget by a relatively clement 2.5 percent. Athletic cuts of the last two years were applied evenly to all programs, and resulted in a decline in quality across the board. This convinced Harper that the overall excellence of athletics would best be served by eliminating one team instead of repeatedly cutting all programs. While the swimming and diving team ranks among the least successful of Dartmouth’s sports teams, a much more compelling justification should not be overlooked...
Former Tennessee Gov. and former Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander returned to his home state to run for the Senate this year against Democrat Bob Clement. The position, which Alexander is favored to win, was opened when Republican Senator Fred Thompson announced his retirement this year...
...DIED. W. CLEMENT STONE, 100, positive-thinking philanthropist who turned $100 of his savings into a multibillion-dollar insurance empire that later became the Aon Corp.; in Evanston, Ill. He used his wealth to make $275 million in charitable contributions and political donations, including millions he gave to Richard Nixon's election campaigns...
...Newman's brief is due on Sept. 13--a Friday. It's a victory of sorts: Mukasey could have dismissed the matter on the spot or had it moved to South Carolina, but he didn't. The hearing also had a surprise special guest: Principal Deputy Solicitor General Paul Clement, a conservative and relatively young lawyer who took over arguments for the government's side. His presence was a clue as to where the Department of Justice thinks this is all heading, given that the primary function of the Solicitor General's office is to argue the government's cases...
...didn't sing or play an instrument; he often left session supervision to his assistant Jack Clement, an actual musician and songwriter. But Phillips did have an ear. He could hear the brilliance in a raw musician. (Sam liked raw; it was what made him rock's first impresario.) He could also hear what wasn't there but could be: what a performer might accomplish if given full freedom in the studio...