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Contributing to the council's rapidly declining campus presence is a static debate lacking substance and misguided by simplistic solutions. Critics, who belittle the organization as incompetent and ineffectual, say the answer lies in focusing on larger issues instead of trivial whims. Others insist that the problem lies in an "apathetic" student body and that only by increasing voter turnout can the council can achieve the legitimacy it needs...
...other hand, the real problem with the "politicized" view is that the council does not adequately represent the political, ethical and moral views of the student body. Council representatives are elected by a small minority (usually friends or blockmates) and on platforms that are, if anything, hardly substantive. This year was no different. As a result, the council is not in a position where it can legitimately serve as a student voice for influencing university policy...
Then there are the implications for Kristen's family. Because this is a familial gene, there is a good chance that her 20-year-old niece has the same problem. By telling her this news, Kristen will effectively shatter her world too. If the niece also tests positive, to whom should she divulge this? Her boyfriend; her fiance? Should the young woman have a mastectomy? Should she have children, when the chances of her daughters' having it are 50%? The niece too will be tempted to lie on official forms. Clark, Iglehart, Kristen and her husband talk about all this...
...Bowles has at times regretted: only days after he announced that he would stay, the Lewinsky scandal broke. Although Bowles has pointedly kept himself out of that crisis--last month he said that until the matter reached Congress, "I hadn't spent two minutes a week on it"--the problem has consumed a year that Bowles had hoped would be spent consolidating the Administration's accomplishments. Because Bowles had neither the inclination nor the temperament for scandal control, that job fell to Bowles' deputy, JOHN PODESTA, who is the leading contender for Bowles' post--which says a lot about what...
Russia has developed an immunity to the colds of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. Once, Moscow's political machinery would freeze up every time Yeltsin sneezed. Now, in a sure sign of the ailing president's ebbing power, the capital is just ignoring his latest health problems. "Even if Yeltsin were forced out due to illness, that would no longer make a difference to Russia's political direction," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The currency markets indicated today that they don't care, and Yeltsin's approval rating now stands at 2 percent, compared with an 89 percent disapproval...