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With the impending budget crisis, things could get much worse. The federal government is dangerously close to the debt limit of $4.9 trillion (no, that's not a typo), and that $1.3 trillion saved for our parents may be quietly tapped into if that limit is reached. In other words...
JIMMY CARTER may one day win the Nobel Peace Prize, but a Nobel for Literature probably isn't in his future--despite the impending publication of his first work of fiction, The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer. This story of a kindly sea monster who befriends a crippled boy is illustrated...
1. The Core. We've been trying to coax the Faculty into shifting the Core to a system of distributional requirements for the last six months. Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell did mention the impending review of the Core in this year's letter to students, and Dean Knowles...
"I would say less than one percent of the population knows the metric changes are going to happen." Nigel Griffin, consumer affairs spokesperson for the United Kingdom's Labour Party, commenting on the nation's impending metrification. He was quoted in the Boston Globe on Sept. 10, 1995.
Columbus sidesteps certain iffy issues raised in the French original--where the man, on hearing of his impending fatherhood, says to his girlfriend, "I have the honor to ask you to have an abortion," and later has a sexual fling on the side--for more general, genial comedy. The movie...