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George B. Reed '99, David W. Humphrey '99, andKatherine T. Wen '99 also ran for co-president...
...many of us who live in New York City did think Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was joking when he said he was cracking down on jaywalking. It was something Humphrey Bogart as a private eye might have said sarcastically to a homicide lieutenant whose guff he did not intend to take ("That's real good, flatfoot, but isn't it about time for you to go out and arrest another nun for jaywalking?"). But then a law student crossing Sixth Avenue got a $50 jaywalking ticket. What we had forgotten was that Mayor Giuliani is never joking...
...California papers are, there could be worse to come from a Minnesota lawsuit brought by Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Hubert H. ("Skip") Humphrey, the state's attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial candidate. With jury selection scheduled to start this week, Humphrey has 33 million pages of industry papers that he says provide not just a smoking gun but "a howitzer" against tobacco. To avoid a long and potentially embarrassing trial in Texas, cigarette makers opted last week for a $15 billion settlement of a lawsuit there. If a judge approves it, the companies will pay the state that...
Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey failed to move up from Vice President to the No. 1 position in part because they seemed too eager for the job. Al Gore should start acting as if he doesn't care whether he becomes President. If he can do that, he'll convince the voters, and he'll win. MICHAEL ROSENBERG Chevy Chase...
...Today Humphrey--who prefers to be known by the name Rkkody--is running a Heaven's Gate Website where potential followers can buy videotapes of leader Do espousing his philosophy as well as gift items like Heaven's Gate mouse pads, NASA-style "Away Team" patches, "dishwasher-safe" mugs and T shirts emblazoned with the slogan WHAT IF THEY'RE RIGHT? In an E-mail interview with TIME, Rkkody claims that his site receives 1,000 hits a day but that he has sold "disgustingly few" of the merchandise items: "less than five mouse pads, no T shirts...