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Chang, playing in the number-two position today, is the 30th-ranked player in the nation. Harvard Coach Dave Fish has not hesitated in the past to rest Zimmerman with Chang around to fill the top singles spot...
Scientists do not know exactly why cholera periodically explodes into epidemics. The bacteria that cause it are part of the aquatic ecosystem, helping to break down dead shellfish. Cholera germs travel up the food chain by attaching themselves to plankton, which are eaten by fish and then by people. Studies by Rita Colwell, professor of microbiology at the University of Maryland, suggest that a plankton bloom, a rapid growth like the one reported off the coast of Peru earlier this year, may help trigger epidemics...
...complicity of African middlemen in sending their compatriots to the New World in bondage. "((She)) became very quiet and did not say anything for several seconds," D'Souza notes proudly. "She now seemed aware of the implications of the term slave trade." True, there are occasional wry moments. Stanley Fish, the avant-garde chairperson of the English department at Duke, proclaims that the university's commitment to affirmative-action hiring is a way to seize "our historicist, postmodernist, poststructuralist moment...
Illiberal Education disappoints because it never delves beneath the surface of its all-too-easy targets. We read the self-important jargon of professors like Fish, but we never understand them. University presidents have uttered public relations bromides for decades; D'Souza reacts as if he is hearing them for the first time. Too young to have lived through the Vietnam era on campus, D'Souza fails to realize that tenured professors with radical views are not solely a postmodernist phenomenon. Like the Broadway theater, liberal education always seems in peril. Luckily for D'Souza, equally constant...
Staying in Congress. Cicciolina, the porn star elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, surprised fellow lawmakers by quitting office. Although her letter of resignation acknowledged she was an "unwelcome presence" in the legislature, Cicciolina was only pulling a pesce d'Aprile, an April fish tale...