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They're unlikely couple at best. Noah Z. Seton '00 and Kamil E. Redmond '00 owe their newly inaugurated reign over the Undergraduate Council to the votes of two very separate constituencies: the supporters of Seton's student services approach and those drawn to Redmond's card-carrying liberal credentials...
...qualified" bozos scrambling through the hallowed halls of Congress trying to figure how to get out of the mudhole the House Judiciary Committee dumped them in. And you worry about Jesse? Ventura is a joy who got elected with votes, not big bucks. He not only doesn't owe anybody anything, he doesn't have to protect anybody--not that he couldn't. Jesse will do just fine. JACQUELYN RYSKAMP Baldwin, Mich...
...music. In interviews, Backstreet and 'N Sync members stress the centrality of "their" music. As Pearlman says, "You have to be able to sing first or it doesn't matter how good-looking you are." The two groups share some of the same songwriters and producers, and both acts owe their most immediate debt to the somewhat more sophisticated R.-and-B. harmonizing of Boyz II Men. The hits are catchy, even compelling, but it's hard, once a girl has grown breasts, to make it through a whole album's worth; then again, to be fair, the same...
Floyd Stokes, recovered, vigorous and hard at work on his Texas ranch last week, needs no convincing. "Dr. Isner and these fellows had to do some really far-out thinking to come up with this treatment," he says. "I owe my life to them...
...parts to cows, rather than by genetic meddling, the panic left consumers extremely wary about what goes onto the family dinner table. Herbert Krach of the Swiss Small Farmers Union notes, "For years scientists assured us that feeding animal-based feeds to cattle was harmless." But the cautions also owe something to romantic--and perhaps outdated--notions about agriculture. Says population geneticist Brian Johnson of Britain's conservation watchdog English Nature: "Conventional intensive agriculture has done more damage to wildlife than anything else." Anyone who thinks that pesticide spraying is safer than biotech crops, he says, "must be nuts...