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Student response to the proposals has been mild compared to the mass outrage on the Hanover, N.H. campus last fall, when the crackdown on Greek-centered social life began...
...unlikely bit of news for an election year: politically, Gary Hart is dead, but Che Guevara isn't. O.K., so it's a little more complicated than that. Che is the hero of a just released political thriller from John Blackthorn, whose Sins of the Fathers was a mild success last year. Like the earlier book, I, Che Guevara (William Morrow; 369 pages; $24) is set in Cuba and carries a tantalizing tease on the book jacket: "John Blackthorn is the pseudonym of a political figure whose name is well known in international capitals and intelligence circles." Last week...
Jones, who lives in the high desert northeast of town, goes into that closet a mild-mannered secretary and comes out Krazy K.C., Wild Man from the Desert Sand, with a ponytail, Gestapo boots, combat fatigues and Harley suspenders. And why this particular getup? "You go with what you know," he says...
...doesn't deny any of its characters humanity, even (rarer still) the parents. It's now rote to knock TV and real-life families as morally bankrupt, and when shown to the press last year, the pilot was wrongly lumped with the fall's genuine network sleaze for its mild (and funny) scenes of parental nudity. But Malcolm is a testament to the virtues of an imperfect home; Malcolm's fratricidal sibs and daft folks keep him grounded as he adjusts to life as a reluctant prodigy...
...opponents slain during his 16-year reign, until Tuesday to persuade him otherwise, but has made clear that he's leaning toward freeing Pinochet. The general, who has been detained in Britain pending extradition since October 1998, suffers from diabetes and arthritis, uses a heart pacemaker and suffered two mild strokes in September...