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...staff's notion that Brown and Harvard are somehow limiting access to women's athletics is ridiculous and insulting. The amount of people at any level of athletics is merely a function of demand; the opportunities exist for all women to participate, if they so choose...
...Hofstadter newsgroup and says, "David Hasselhoff rules the world, do you agree? And that kind of random confusion is just so classic, and so funny. You get on the net and sooner or later you're going to see some sort of online, interactive erotica, that's just a function of time and where you are, but the Hasselhoff thing was so random. I just told my mother...
Good news for everyone who can't function without their morning latte arrives in a Swedish medical study that says drinking six or more cups of coffee daily may reduce your risk of colon cancer. The study also said drinking two cups of tea a day provides the same benefit...
...circus. Modern fashion will never follow a single leader, but if designers, retailers and women have anything to say about it, sanity is here to stay a while-along with a touch of class and maybe a whiff of charm. Mugler served at least one important function: bring in the clowns, the bearded ladies, the acrobats. It's all downright nostalgic. --Reported bY Greg Burke/Rome, Dorie Denbigh/Paris, Barbara Rudolph and David E. Thigpen/New York
...folks who live nearby are generally aware of the hospital's function-at times perhaps overly so. Recently locals brought in an elderly woman who, hysterical and speaking nothing but Greek, was assumed to be stricken with Jerusalem Syndrome. In fact, she was a tourist who had simply taken the wrong bus and wound up in an unfamiliar neighborhood-upset, yes, but in no immediate danger of assuming divinity...