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...long as these guidelines are sufficiently liberal and the University is flexible as precedent is established, the changes should serve both students and the University well. Start-up businesses can foster unique educational experiences and function as a valuable creative outlet. They are as worthy an extracurricular pursuit as any student group or term-time job. Thus far, the College has had little problem with students who are already involved in business enterprises...
...House and Senate passed the District of Columbia Appropriations Act. You might think that would be a boring piece of legislation. You would be wrong. For buried in the endless clauses authorizing such spending items as $867 million for education and $5 million to promote the adoption of foster children was Section 6001: Superfund Recycling Equity. It had nothing to do with the District of Columbia, nor appropriations, nor "equity" as it is commonly defined...
...parent company of this magazine). Much of the credit for Harlem's love affair with chess goes to Maurice Ashley, 33, a grand master and the highest-ranked black player in history. Ashley, who established Mott's chess program a decade ago, saw the game as a way to foster academic achievement and self-esteem. "I call chess intellectual karate," he says. "It's about setting a concrete goal and figuring out how you're going to carry it out." Chess improves problem solving, strategic thinking and concentration. It teaches impatient kids the value of hard work and delayed gratification...
...drawback: no one, staff or writer, gets paid. Yet Eggers has lassoed literary stars like David Foster Wallace and Rick Moody. In the new issue, he even enlisted authors to design their own book covers. (A Denis Johnson play bears a cartoon by the author's son.) Because of the box and other doodads--heavy paper, color foldouts--the issue costs $22, but Eggers, who has worked as a designer (and insisted on designing his memoir), argues, "People don't go to a bookstore looking for a cheap and ugly thing." McSweeney's contributor Sarah Vowell says Eggers' art background...
...think that speech codes are the best way of preventing hateful speech," he writes in an e-mail message. "I think it is better, especially in a university community, to try to foster a culture of respect that prizes vigorous debate and discourages epithets...