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...depositions sworn out by former troopers--whose credibility has been assailed since they first told their stories to the American Spectator in 1993--a common thread is the role played by Buddy Young, who ran Clinton's security operation in Arkansas and who was appointed to a plum federal post after Clinton became President. Larry Patterson, who had worked for Young, said Young once admitted to an unusual job description, saying that one of his tasks was to "keep a lid on some of these women. I believe the term Buddy used was 'to keep the other shoe from falling...
...synonymous with superstar-athlete at Harvard for the last four years, but the 5'11" forward is finally getting the attention she deserves from a national audience. Skeptics who believed that Feaster's talent had largely to do with weak Ivy League competition were proved decidedly wrong as Feaster ran hoops through two national powerhouse women's basketball teams in a span of a couple of days...
...weeks ago, an article ran in The Crimson entitled "Eight Days A Week: Students Do It ALL" (News, Feb. 27). The article was about people who are really, really busy. The first woman interviewed, for example, takes six classes, audits another six, spends 40 hours a week just attending lectures and sections, works for a professor and is learning to play the guitar. Others edit student publications, teach sections for computer science courses, play in orchestras and jet-set around the world--all at the same time. And lest you hope that they have at least sacrificed fun and friendship...
...pool incessantly in the House basement, listen to pop music and watch reruns on TV. Yet while such choices are ours to make, these people are publicly derided and we all know it. Last semester, in the same space where the "Eight Days a Week" article appeared, The Crimson ran an article on "slackers" at Harvard (News, Oct.24). Despite a remarkably similar subject--surveying unusual students and asking them about the choices they've made--the article on slackers is prefaced by a series of remarks attempting to explain the slackers' behavior, including analyses from Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath...
DIED. FRED FRIENDLY, 82, broadcasting pioneer and former president of CBS News whose early documentary work set the standard for journalistic integrity; in New York. Friendly quit CBS when the network ran a repeat of I Love Lucy while NBC broadcast a live Senate hearing on Vietnam. (See EULOGY below...