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...undergraduate, not even old enough to legally drink alcohol, would be taken seriously by the relevant authorities. I had, after all, a bird’s eye view from my first-year dormitory of the delusional narcissism of the Progressive Student Labor Movement members who occupied then University President Neil L. Rudenstine’s office space for a couple weeks and by doing so accomplished...nothing. I had read editorials in various campus publications condemning (or supporting) the Iraq war, tax cuts, abortion rights and any number of other issues—and these editorials, though of comparable quality...
...Neil Noesen, a relief pharmacist at the Kmart in Menomonie, Wis., was the only person on duty one day in 2002 when a woman came in to refill her prescription for the contraceptive Loestrin FE. According to a complaint filed by the Wisconsin department of regulation and licensing, Noesen refused because of his religious opposition to birth control. He also declined to transfer the prescription to a nearby pharmacy and refused once again when the woman returned to the store with police. The prescription was filled several days later by the managing pharmacist. But Noesen was accused of unprofessional conduct...
Three new books examine the history of African Americans in baseball. Negro League Baseball by Neil Lanctot documents how Major League owners underpaid black franchises for star players. Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America by Tom Stanton details Aaron's trials on the road to 715, while The Ticket Out by Michael Sokolove shows that slugger Darryl Strawberry wasn't the only member of his high school team to fall victim to drugs and despair...
...meaning at second, unless one were to mean it in a politicized sense. (Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, incidentally, might have done well to consult the handy guide distributed to all incoming first-years, Gordon Harvey’s Writing with Sources, before citing former University President Neil L. Rudenstine’s apparent definition of “liberal education” in his cover letter introducing the report. In addition to footnoting the wrong page number from Rudenstine’s book—a page which mysteriously contains neither of the two passages he quotes?...
...carries local and state news. (Miriam Pawel, who spearheaded the changes in California coverage, was replaced in a recent internal shuffle.) The California focus is also reflected in new feature sections on health and the outdoors, and in the creation of an automobile column, for which car critic Dan Neil won a Pulitzer this year...