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...very young men are usually crude, and to every one but themselves almost worthless; besides, it is hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears to us quite out of the question to speak to the half-dozen and neglect the hundreds. Let those who think differently consider well this line from Byron, that served as the motto of one of our predecessors,--"I won't philosophize, I will be read...
...would like to express my disappointment with The Crimson's coverage of the women's track and field meet held two weekends ago at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center. Not only did The Crimson neglect to cover the meet in Monday's sports section, but the coverage the meet received in the Dec. 9 paper is both cursory and wrong...
While a solicitor in Charleston, Condon began his program of prosecuting women whose babies tested positive for cocaine. In some cases he had women taken from hospital rooms, handcuffed and jailed. The state supreme court ruling came in the case of Cornelia Whitner, who pleaded guilty to child neglect in 1992 when her baby was born with traces of cocaine in his system. She was sentenced to 8 years in jail, but lower courts overturned the decision on grounds that a fetus was not a person. The state supreme court restored the conviction. (Whitner's attorneys plan to appeal...
Nevertheless, the fact that we need to address concerns abroad does not mean that we should neglect concerns within the country in which we live. In fact, we have reason to be concerned about the situation in the U.S., since not all groups are enjoying the decline in AIDS-related deaths reported by the CDC earlier this year. Here too, VISIONS has sought to promote involvement of students in their local communities. Though its campus chapters, VISIONS has developed a volunteer program through which college students serve the needs of HIV-positive children by acting as Big Siblings. Additionally...
Naturally, the creatures' old nemesis, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), has been--literally--reincarnated, and her wit and toughness were not forgotten in the cloning. Nor did screenwriter Joss Whedon (of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) neglect to provide her with a spaceship of fools who refuse to believe her warnings of impending carnage. He has even given Ripley a soul sister (Winona Ryder) to bond with. O.K., she's a robot, but she's got a heart of gold as well as buns of steel...