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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON KNEW life had changed forever when her daughter Chelsea got sick one night in February and asked her mother to fix one of her favorite dishes. No sooner did the First Lady pad down the hall to the kitchen on the second floor of the family quarters, open the refrigerator and begin cracking eggs than a steward appeared magically at her elbow. He wanted to help by whipping up an omelet. At the risk of hurting his feelings, the most influential woman in America explained that the eggs had to be scrambled and that...
Harvard may have angered the defending champions. It may have awoken a sleeping giant. But then again, it was the first Crimson victory in eight years against the Tigers. That win may serve as a launching pad for a Harvard victory...
...RUSSIA STRUGGLES TO HOLD TOGETHER, ITS SPACE PROGRAM is falling apart. At the BAIKONUR COSMODROME in Kazakhstan -- the Russian equivalent of the Kennedy Space Center -- civilian workers have been looting equipment, crippling the facility's launch pad in the process. The Russian space program is also involved in a feud with the new Ukrainian state, which has its own space program. A Russian meteorological satellite was turned off in orbit, so Ukraine couldn't recover weather data from it. Some of the stolen Baikonur equipment has mysteriously resurfaced in Ukraine. Understandably, the disarray of Russia's once great space program...
From Wall Street to Main Street, that seems to be the prevalent opinion of Bill Clinton's yet-to-be-unveiled tax-and-spending policy. Such faith might seem a gossamer launching pad for a blast-off by the $6 trillion U.S. economy. And the President is clearly arousing hopes that he could have severe trouble fulfilling. But as the drum roll for Clinton's State of the Union speech next Wednesday gets louder, what was a limping recovery from the 1990-91 recession is quickening into something more like a sprint...
...amazing what a coat, a tie, a steno pad and an attitude can do for you...just as I had snuck into the press room earlier, I got through security and onto the BU bench to watch Drury and Coach Ronn Tomassoni raise the Beanpot on high from up close...