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...flash of irony, the Undergraduate Council--an institution already on wobbly legs, yet one with a sizable budget and sizable list of both responsibilities and opportunities--has proven incapable of completing the most basic task before it: the election of its own members...
...Those who buy it will not only be able to call home and wish folks Happy Holidays from their Caribbean vacation this December; they'll also be able to look up and watch the three large-array antennas on an Iridium satellite line up with the sun, triggering a flash of light for careful observers back down on Earth...
...special request from Mandela for all who attend: Don't use flash photography. Mandela's years in prison left him with a medical condition affecting his eyes...
...Flash forward 15 months. This week Strohmeyer goes on trial in Las Vegas for the murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of Sherrice Iverson. If convicted, he faces a possible death sentence, but his lawyer, Leslie Abramson, claims his confession was extracted by police while he was drugged. His friend Cash, now 19 and an aspiring nuclear engineer in his sophomore year at Berkeley, is not charged with anything, but he faces a trial of another kind, from angry Californians. The tale of the bad Samaritan has touched a nerve...
...last Tuesday's rockslide was one of those oft-quoted gurus, Ralph Acampora of Prudential Securities, who reversed his prediction of a day earlier and said on CNBC that we may be entering a bear market for blue chips. The Dow Jones 30 industrials shed 300 points in a flash. But the real pain came Wednesday, when the market dropped an additional 100 in the time it took me to get a Diet Coke out of the office fridge. That took us down 10% from the recent tops of the Dow and the S&P 500--an ominous benchmark...