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Gourmands need not apply. The protein-packed health bars that Sears peddles as ideal between-meal snacks taste like candy bars laced with sawdust. When Sears sat down with a TIME reporter last week to a lunch of a grilled salmon sandwich and vegetables, he treated his plate like a battlefield. "We're going to start plotting our strategy like Patton getting ready to cross the Rhine with the Third Army," he announced, discarding his French fries and all but a scrap of bread. It's no surprise that Zone disciples tend to congregate on the coasts. Sears says Middle...
...contract was the first ever terminated through paragraph 16A1 of the uniform player contract, which prohibits "acts of moral turpitude." And the yearlong ban was, by 10 months, the longest in NBA history. Was what Sprewell did that much worse than Charles Barkley's throwing a guy through a plate-glass window? Worse than Barkley's spitting on a fan? Worse than Barkley's punching a guy in a bar? In a world in which players are richer, more popular and much bigger than their bosses, the NBA thinks attacking a coach is more egregious than hitting umpires, cameramen...
...Pentagon was unavailable for comment on the question of child soldiers ? a practice that is estimated to involve 250,000 children worldwide. On land mines, however, State Department spokesman James P. Rubin stepped up to the plate, insisting that the U.S. spends more money and effort than all other nations combined on finding and destroying mines, and calling America "a beacon for human rights." Jeffersonian rhetoric aside, by abstaining from yesterday's treaty Washington is finding its claim to global leadership on human rights increasingly under fire...
...only time it was hard was at Thanksgiving dinner because you notice the little differences in the way your family does it from theirs. If someone doesn't put the jelly on the right size plate, you want to cry for Mom," said Daniel B. Baer...
...short, student government has quite a lot on its plate, which makes the council's current practice of imitating a debate society on American foreign policy all the more unfortunate: we simply don't have time. In the upcoming election, you should seek a presidential candidate who has her eye on the bouncing ball. Beth Stewart is that candidate; she has never been confused as to what student government should and should not be doing. She understands that the Undergraduate Council will achieve legitimacy not by shouting at the wind, but by relentlessly pursuing an agenda that stresses services...