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...Knight's eruptions have been going on for years, but this week, with hilarious solemnity, Indiana University completed a formal investigation of the coach's "pattern of inappropriate behavior." The university might have fired Knight outright, as Dwight Eisenhower and George C. Marshall might have fired Patton. The university might have considered intermediate steps - prefrontal lobotomy, say. Instead, Indiana decided to fine Knight $30,000, suspend him for three games next season, and give him one no-kidding-this-time "last chance" to behave himself. If Knight had been losing basketball games, of course, he would have been...
...ceiling to 50%. Republican Representative Jennifer Dunn of Washington is backing that up with a separate bill that would ease the tax 5% a year until it reaches zero by 2010. And G.O.P. Governor George W. Bush of Texas has vowed to kill the tax outright if elected President. Many Democrats agree with Vice President Al Gore that a repeal would be a sop to the rich. But others believe the benefits for small companies outweigh that concern. Democratic Representative John Tanner of Tennessee, for one, is co-sponsoring Dunn's bill, and there seem to be enough like-minded...
...sound has been together for more than a decade now, and it seems like they get better with every album. This latest recording, soon to be released on the Mantra label, follows 1998's fabulous Good Humor. It is a bit more subdued than the previous album, with fewer outright pop hits, but the songs play tight, and various electronic beats are mixed very well with lounge-style keyboarding and the traditional St. Etienne jangly guitar sound. And of course there is Cracknell's beautiful, melodic singing that will whisp your head into the clouds...
...much expired in the U.S.--one reason is, we've run out of dam sites--but it's still prevalent throughout much of the world. In China, which is erecting the Three Gorges Dam, the biggest (and, at $25 billion, the most expensive) hydroelectric project in history, one senses outright resentment against rivers running free...
...bring in half as many people as we had in the past, due to "safety" concerns of the new deputy superintendent. Left with many more tutors than places for them to tutor, we looked to expand to other facilities. MCI-Framingham, an all-women's prison, turned us down outright. MCI-Concord, a facility that had no teachers when we went to speak with them, strung us along for over four months, only to eventually reject us outright as well. No reasons were given. I am at a loss to explain why free volunteers would be turned away outright. Many...