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...economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The steel unions are very powerful, and they really want these quotas. Gore ?- and Hillary too ?- is counting on union support to win, and Clinton?s opposition is going to make them angry." It already has. The United Steelworkers of America arranged to have steelworkers descend on the Capitol today for a rally, reminding lawmakers (and law-vetoers) that global trade can affect votes. Will the Senate put West Virginia before world affairs, and pass the quota bill (it passed the House overwhelmingly in March)? Or will the Man of Steel (formerly the Man of Jell...
...year-old and two 14-year-olds, all boys, had been concocting a conspiracy to outdo Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The Michigan boys planned to take a gun from one of their fathers, use it to hold up a gun store for more weaponry, and then descend on Holland Woods Middle School to rape some of the girls and shoot many classmates. They had drawn up a list of 154 targets and stolen a building plan from the custodian's office...
...climbers reached under the body, they found letters from Mallory's family, poignantly close to his heart, as well as a broken altimeter, a pocket knife, monogrammed handkerchiefs and other personal items. Intriguingly, a pair of sun goggles found in a pocket suggest that he was trying to descend in fading light. There was, however, no sign of Irvine. With the Mallory family's permission, the team took a snippet of tissue from the forearm in order to compare any surviving DNA with samples from his descendants, including perhaps his grandson George, who reached the summit in 1995. Then they...
...Mostly, I fell asleep behind the wheel." Perfect. We roll out of Cambridge close to midnight as a cloud of fog begins to descend on I-95. Daniel is looking sharp and alert behind the wheel...
This weekend, hoards of bright-eyed, bushy-tailed high school students will descend upon campus for Harvard's annual Pre-Frosh Weekend. For three days, the University will make every effort to woo potential Class of 2003 members with dances, lectures and even recently sprouted tufts of grass. To those of you who were already lured to the University a couple of years ago, your best behavior would be appreciated. Keep a smile plastered on your face, point the pre-frosh in the right direction when they have lost their way and take a few minutes out of your schedule...