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...second consecutive seasons, the Harvard Crimson will quit Cambridge a few days earlier than the rest of us, trekking to the deep South for a crack at glory and an opportunity to debunk the myth that good baseball doesn't exist in the Northeast--and it has to like its chances...
...Starr has been particularly interested in a Dec. 28 meeting at the White House among Lewinsky, Clinton and his secretary, Betty Currie. That session took place on a quiet Sunday, 11 days after Lewinsky had received a subpoena in the Paula Jones case and two days after she had quit her Pentagon job. Currie spent 10 hours before the grand jury last week, going over her recollections of Monica's visits to the White House. Starr's lawyers have directed the same kinds of questions to the uniformed officers who stand watch at stations in the West Wing...
...working on a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania when one day he realized that he didn't have the money to get a pair of broken eyeglasses repaired. It was a revelation; there would never be money in philosophy, he reasoned, so he promptly quit school to take a job in electronics. Eight years later, he switched to banking and became a rising star, first at Philadelphia National Bank, then at its successor, CoreStates Financial. Colleagues describe him as hot tempered and strong willed, but they say his work was phenomenal. And so it was that although...
...result of their parents' indifference, a number of these children do not perform well in school and are generally ill prepared for any college, much less schools with high academic standards, like the University of California, Berkeley. It's time for the media and minority leaders to quit screaming about racial injustice and begin preaching the message that preparation for college begins early, and it begins in the home. BOB PARKER Trussville...
...life plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Origin Systems, creator of the popular Internet game. Fed up with service lags and other bugs, they charge Origin knew it couldn't deliver 24-hour real-time play but advertised it anyway. Their lawyer says it's time the computer-gaming industry quit hyping its wares; he wants Origin to drop its $10 monthly fee until the problems are fixed. The company won't comment but invites players to call its help line...