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...Yankees ace Mike Mussina, a Stanford (but not Stamford) grad, is a noted solver, in ink, of crosswords. (He enjoys other word and trivia games. A couple weeks ago the Times noted that Moose and his catcher whiled away a rain delay compiling a list of TV actors who had starred in three hit series. Anyone? Anyone? Hint: consider the initials...
During the last couple of summer Olympics in Sydney and Athens, American viewers never tired of complaining of being forced to watch major prime-time events on tape delay; knowing the swimming or track-and- field competition had actually taken place 6 or 12 hours before, with the results widely reported over the Internet and on TV, sucked quite a bit of the excitement out of the experience. Now NBC wants some major events at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing rescheduled so they'll air in prime time in the U.S. - and it's viewers in Europe and Asia...
...contract allows only Coca-Cola products to be sold in school vending machines, and nets about $400,000 a year for school activities. In July Banzhaf and a local attorney threatened to sue the district and each school board member if the contract was renewed. The board, after a delay of several weeks, voted 4 to 3 to renew the contract anyway, but included a cancellation option, mandated that juice and water be included among vending-machine offerings and gave individual schools the option of banning sodas altogether. Steve Brown, the board vice president, voted for renewal, saying...
...committee to decide what aspects of the [Report on General Education] to discuss and what aspects to change,” he writes in an e-mail. ‘GRANDIOSE THINKING’The faculty passed two of the curricular review’s recommendations, a delay in concentration choice timing and the creation of secondary fields, akin to minors, this spring. General education is one of the last pieces of the review yet to come up for a full faculty vote, though discussion of it has been on the agenda at several of this spring?...
...president may have pushed the first phase of Allston planning past the point of no return, professors say that further development will almost surely lapse without Summers’ guidance, if only to leave room for initiatives by the new president. And some professors say Allston construction may be delayed until donors can be assured of stability at the helm of the University.“The project was very significantly driven by President Summers and unless that push is taken up by [Interim University] President Bok, I’m not sure it can move ahead...