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Settling Down First Donald Trump, now Roger Clinton -- are high-profile, freewheeling bachelors becoming an endangered species? The oft-delayed marriage of the President's brother to his girlfriend, Molly Martin, was to occur this Monday in Dallas. A First Nephew is due by the spring -- which made Roger's request for a White House wedding out of the question...
...Clery Act, which only requires universities to include certain types of crime. While burglaries must be included under the Clery Act, larcenies are not. According to Catalano, a burglary is a theft that involves trespassing—someone unlawfully entering university property, while larcenies are thefts that occur in public spaces where anyone is authorized to go. Although it is not required, Harvard includes the larceny rate in its Clery report. Where there is ambiguity over how to categorize a crime, Catalano said “one could see the motivation to classify more crimes as larcenies than burglaries?...
...Speaking of courtrooms, RIM has been in the news quite a bit lately over a nasty patent dispute. Some predict doom for the company, and others assume some sort of financial settlement will occur. All I know is this: with such momentum and such sound product design, RIM will probably be hawking BlackBerrys, in one form or another, for years and years to come...
...done. One solution is Proposition 77, a ballot measure which will have retired judges draw district lines in an effort to end gerrymandering and reintroduce competition. But while its premise has a lot of promise, Proposition 77 could be a logistical nightmare. It calls for the redistricting to occur before the next congressional election. Those in charge of running state elections say that this is practically unfeasible and that the narrow timeframe is reason enough to reject the proposition (a Los Angeles Times poll has predicted its rejection as well). However, it seems that some sort of redistricting reform...
...again in the Lancet. They had cut child mortality in half--a figure that would fall to a quarter by 2003--for a cost of $2.64 for each child saved. The program is being adopted across India, where more than a quarter of the 4 million annual newborn deaths occur, and in Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and parts of Africa...