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Harvard now has three games remaining in the regular season, and a lone victory will assure the team of an outright Ivy League title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. And the squad ranked second in the nation in three-point field goals made and thirteenth in three-point field goal percentage wants to let everyone know that they are for real...
...halls of Harvard and among the nation's elite pundits, one can hear the chorus of snickers and see the synchronized head-shaking deriding the Buchanan candidacy. His campaign can all too easily be dismissed by, and might eventually be sunk by, Buchanan's flirtation with authoritarianism, if not outright racism and anti-Semitism. True enough, Pat Buchanan's success has been a boon to all those who can almost hear the strains of "Sieg Heil to the Chief" wafting through their minds as they ease into bed at night...
That there has been little to loathe outright on SNL this season has proved a mixed blessing. The revamped SNL that premiered in September with six new cast members is significantly better than it was last year, and the mood among staff members has brightened. As one writer puts it, "You don't have to walk down the street anymore and overhear people talking about how horrible the show is." But there is an unfortunate flip side to that truth: people don't seem to be talking about Saturday Night Live very much at all. Animosity has turned to apathy...
...suffering, and mostly because he is challenging the accepted order, the political establishment that crosses party lines. You can see what's coming, of course. With Forbes soaring in the latest polls, it won't be long before it is said that he must win Iowa and New Hampshire outright to be deemed the real victor. If the bar is raised like that, probably only one thing is certain. Forbes will spend still more zillions attacking the pols and pundits for trying to rob the electorate...
...menu is a "method of operation" which does not qualify for copyright protection. "People in the computer industry see this ruling and think that judges don't understand the industry if a lawyer can convince them this isn't an infringement," says Elmer-DeWitt. "This was a case of outright copying. Borland took the look and feel of the Lotus program, incorporated it into their competing Quattro Pro program, and sold it for a lower price." Although the case had been watched closely by the computer industry and copyright lawyers expecting a landmark ruling on how copyright...