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Fraternities and sororities "are not permittedto conduct any activity at Harvard even thoughtheir activities involve Harvard undergraduates.This policy also applies to the `final clubs' inCambridge," the handbook reads.CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerTHE OFFENDING ITEM: Fraternitymembers carried boxes and bags through the Yardsporting their Sigma Chi T-shirts...
...Starr's grand-jury room have been churning for weeks through the Internet and the supermarket tabloids, waiting for mainstream news outlets to pick them up, give them the luster of legitimacy and dispatch them to the wider world. Last week NBC Nightly News gravely confirmed a Drudge Report item that Clinton and Lewinsky once had sex after he attended Easter services. No big deal. More scabrous stuff than that bounces regularly from cyberland to Jay Leno without stopping for the niceties of confirmation...
...dorm is the most expensive item on a shopping list of steps to crackdown on alcohol abuse...
...only real legacy item left on Clinton's menu is saving Social Security--America's biggest and most successful social program, due to go bust in 2032, thanks to the bulge of retiring baby boomers. Clinton loyalists see the program as the final piece in a legacy trifecta. Says former aide Bill Galston, a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland: "If Clinton can leave office as the man who licked the budget deficit, saved Social Security and guided the economy through the largest peacetime expansion in history, well, that's not bad." And Clinton has been surefooted...
...Francis Coppola's trial attorneys in his $80 million case against Warner Bros. (TIME's affiliate), I found your item on the jury's verdict troubling [NOTEBOOK, July 20]. The verdict had nothing to do with Warner's "reneging on a deal to remake Pinocchio." There was never any such "deal." Warner was held liable for intentionally interfering with Mr. Coppola's efforts to make Pinocchio for a different studio (Columbia Pictures). In addition, you ignored the foreign grosses and income for Mr. Coppola's films, which would more than double the figures you quoted...