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...writing campaign got her reinstated. McConnell's spokesman says "allowances have to be made" because the complainant is hearing impaired. His boss, however, had a chance to stop him but didn't. Oscar-night parties are the Publishers Clearing House of the glossy magazines, with Vanity Fair throwing the premier bash in L.A. and Entertainment Weekly holding forth in Manhattan. George magazine entered the sweepstakes with its first party in Washington at the hilltop house of Peggy and Conrad Cafritz. Editor in chief John F. Kennedy Jr. attracted an intense power cluster, usurping for the moment the cluster power...
SENTENCED. YIGAL AMIR, 25; to life imprisonment; for the assassination of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin; in Tel Aviv. The Jewish ultra-rightist brought new depths of meaning to the word unrepentant, grinning and yawning through a trial in which he freely admitted he shot Rabin to derail peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Amir's fellow extremists are taunting Rabin's successor, Shimon Peres, by chanting Amir's name...
...institution which prides itself on being the premier educational institution in the world and one that values toleration, diversity and "rational discourse," I am baffled that the Undergraduate Council would recommend that the University ban ROTC ceremonies. Perhaps some of the undergraduates need remedial tutoring on the meaning of toleration and diversity. Is the appropriate response to percieved "discrimination" to retaliate by discrimination and punative measures? I doubt it. Can't we do better than this...
This racist message is evidence that hateful attitudes can still thrive here. Although Harvard is often characterized as America's premier institution of higher learning, it is not immune from the anti-intellectual forces of prejudice and racism...
...skipping the Olympic road trials in May, but don't count him out of the July 31 Olympic road race. He's hoping to amass enough World Cup points to earn him an automatic spot on the U.S. team. To do that, he will concentrate on the sport's premier event, the Tour de France in June. "The Tour will be the key for the Olympics," he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "The [Olympic gold medalist] will come from the Tour...