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...appears sports stars are more successful at convincing adolescents to buy snazzy sneakers than they are at persuading voters to support political candidates. People realize that while Shaq may dominate under the basket, he ought not to control the ballot...
...novels have earned him the status of a cult figure, at least in the British press, but the London-based author, 44, now seems to be bidding for a somewhat more remunerative title, as in "best seller." Thomson's sixth novel, The Book of Revelation (Knopf; 260 pages; $23), ought to widen considerably the circle of his readership on both sides of the Atlantic. His new book, like its predecessors, conveys bizarre, surrealistic events with understated, laconic precision, but the principal subject this time out is that fail-safe crowd pleaser, kinky...
Laundry at Harvard is a far more difficult process than it ought to be. About the time you're half-way across the courtyard (because it would be entirely too convenient for Harvard to have located laundry machines in the basement of every first-year dorm), you realize that a t-shirt, sweats and flip-flops aren't about to cut it when the temperature is 40 below. Of course, when you finally get to the laundry room, you find that the one deranged person who woke up before ten to do his laundry has used...
...University to follow a watered-down curriculum instead of pursuing higher-level material on their own initiative. In order for the Core to make up for the loss of student choice it represents, the wide range of substitutions of departmental courses allowed in the science core requirements ought to be granted to the humanities as well...
Slobodan Milosevic ought to be a little nervous. The assassination of his defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, on Monday is the second murder of a high-profile political figure in Serbia in the past month - and may be sign that power struggles inside Milosevic's regime are spinning out of control. When Zeljko Raznatovic, the Serbian paramilitary leader better known as the indicted war criminal Arkan, was gunned down in January, there had been some speculation that Milosevic may have wanted him dead. "But this time we can be more certain that Milosevic would not have approved the killing," says TIME...