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This is small solace to fans in Minnesota. Last week in Minneapolis the team's staff grimly tried to conduct business as usual, in the event the worst doesn't happen--a not unlikely event, given the logistics and the union's legal challenge. "We sold eight season tickets yesterday," said spokesman Sean Harlin. The Twins were also getting help in Washington, where Minnesota Senators Paul Wellstone and Mark Dayton lobbied the Administration to strip baseball of its antitrust exemption. Given that the current President co-owned the Texas Rangers, this is what's known as a grandstand play...
...prepare: we need batteries, a flashlight, water. Then you go back and say, 'What are you guys doing to prepare?' and they say, 'What do you mean?' And it doesn't feel as important there. It does seem a little neurotic and fatalistic to have the same code of conduct there as I have here. Then I come back and there's anthrax, and it's all real again...
...council report suggested that instead of allowing in national chains like Blockbuster Video, the College could purchase its own movie collection and “[conduct] operations through [Harvard University Dining Services] employees...
This year, the Administrative Board of Harvard College has changed its policies to allow a single fact-finder to conduct investigations in certain student disputes. According to Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery ’87, the fact-finder may be assigned to sensitive cases, like those of rape and sexual assault, and would replace the three-to-four person subcommittees that have handled the collection of evidence in the past...
...board unanimously passed a motion appointing Theresa S. Neighbor, the executive director of the Election Commission, the administrator of the recount. Neighbor and the recount’s auditor will put together a plan to conduct the recount by Nov. 21, when the board holds its next meeting...