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...With no candidate who stands out as a clear vote for competence, voter support is breaking down much as it did last time around: along racial lines, almost by default, with blacks and liberal whites lining up for Dinkins and white ethnics backing Giuliani. The swing factor is the city's growing Hispanic electorate, which gave Dinkins 64% of its vote in 1989 but may deliver less for him this time around. Whichever candidate they elect, New Yorkers can only hope that their new chief executive will be modest enough to borrow a page or two from the new breed...
...flight three singles draw, while Erica Cheng had to with draw from her consolation match at flight four singles because of an injury. In doubles action, Kelly Granat and Majmudar won their flight one consolation match over the Richmond duo of Ashley Faherty and Camille Walter by default. Harvard's Ariel Clapp and Tanya Menon lost in the flight three consolation (6-3, 6-1) to Christine Trotter and Charmaine Ing of Cornell...
...entirely to golf -- but at least behind those are single-minded individuals pursuing their dreams of having more shows about pesto and four- irons on TV. The broadcast networks' proposed channels, to the contrary, are not being launched mainly out of Ted Turnerian visionary determination, but defensively, hastily, by default...
...Department of Health and Human Services published the names of 4,973 physicians and other health professionals to shame them into repaying $228 million in government medical-education loans that are in default...
Proponents of the direct lending plan say that it would simplify things for students and save money by reducing the default rate and cutting out the profit now made by Sallie Mae and commercial banks...