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Sunday afternoon from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (check times) the Quad will be transformed into a mecca of politics and pop music--offering students one last opportunity to register for the Nov. 7 elections while the lyrics of They Might be Giants add conviviality and vigor to the air. Even if you have never heard of Birdhouse in Your Soul, the carnival games and food make the event worth attending...
...Olympic athletes cited nations with cheaters, including Canada, East Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands [SUMMER OLYMPICS, Sept. 11]. Although you mentioned American shot putter Randy Barnes, who tested positive for steroids, why wasn't there more of a discussion of cheating by U.S. athletes, who hail from a veritable mecca of sports drugs? Any competent sports-medicine authority will affirm that the top echelon of world-class athletes includes those who use chemical assistance, and Americans are no exception. SEAN BOYLE Geilenkirchen-Gillrath, Germany...
...Washington is in culture shock. The new mecca is vastly different: the crowd is rich, young and isn't naturally inclined toward politics or government. Last summer Bobbie Kilberg, NVTC president, threw a fund raiser for George W. Bush's presidential campaign. She thought about having the event downtown but discovered that prospective donors in the high-tech suburbs weren't keen about that idea. Kilberg held the event near the Dulles Toll Road instead. It was the first real political event anyone could remember in northern Virginia, generating $600,000 for Bush...
...There were no phones in our rooms, smoking was allowed only in the smoking room, a mecca for endless bridge games and conversation. Often we found ourselves in the middle of passionate polemics that tested the comfortable assumptions we had brought from home...
...nominees in the Reagan and Bush administrations than he has under Clinton. Helms will only say now, "No matter who's President, we're going to look at the record and find out what the ups and downs are." George W. might do well to pay a visit to mecca...