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...asking school districts to require school uniforms, without actually asking Congress to fund new programs. Wednesday's topic du jour: free cell phones for neighborhood crime watch groups. The White House has announced that the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association will contribute 50,000 cell phones pre-programmed to dial 911, along with free cellular air time, to the nation's 20,000 community policing programs to help them combat crime. TIME Washington correspondent J.F.O McAllister that Americans can expect to see Clinton expanding his new tack of governing-by-fiat, since it casts him as the activist President working hard...
...news channel; shortly thereafter two network rivals, ABC and NBC, did the same. Fox seemed especially ill equipped to pull off such an ambitious venture, given that unlike its competitors, it has no news infrastructure to build on. Fox also faces daunting problems getting space on the crowded cable dial. (NBC will put its new network, which debuts in July, on a channel it already owns, America's Talking; ABC hopes to package its service, promised for late this year, with its other cable networks, like ESPN.) To try to elbow his way onto cable systems, Murdoch is offering cable...
...Padraic O'Reilly, coming off of a less-than-impressive performance as the Professor in Ionesco's "The Lesson" at the Ex earlier this year, does an excellent job as Sebastian, the lead role. He has a great, deadpan sense of humor, and his serious voice, reminiscent of Jim Dial from the TV show "Murphy Brown," makes him perfect for his role as the idolized older brother...
...grade I knew that other countries not only had a different slant on the news, they had different news altogether, some aimed to listeners in their former colonies and to emigrants in South America or East Africa, but most aimed at anyone who cared to caress the fine-tuning dial...
...coordination of student effort for good causes. The Valentine's Day Datamatch survey was able to add something to an otherwise dull campus humor life, albeit in an indirect manner. We must, however, note one remarkable faliure which could have and should have been avoided, namely the pathetic direct-dial Washington phone bank. Perhaps all activities can't be winners, but let's not embarrass the student body with such dismal ones...