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Rising above Harvard's competitive atmosphere and into a realm of personal growth and achievement is crucial to individual success, Jeffrey P. Howard '69 told about 75 members of the Black Students Association (BSA) last night...
...Dynamic scoring' sounds like something composers or quarterbacks do. But in fact it's the hottest buzz word from the realm of Republican legislators, who hope to use the economic technique to justify tax cuts. Already the term has ignited a controversy. Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the President's chief economist, calls the concept "dangerous." But Republican John Kasich of Ohio, who is expected to head the House Budget Committee in the new Congress, is just as strongly in favor of the idea...
...that, Star Trek has never won much respect. In the realm of long- running entertainment phenoms, Sherlock Holmes has more history; James Bond, more class; Star Wars and Indiana Jones, more cinematic cachet. And while no one sneers at the Baker Street Irregulars, noninitiates consider Trekkies to be pretty odd: Trekkies like Pete Mohney, a computer programmer in Birmingham, Alabama, who leads a double life as captain of his local Starfleet "ship," the Hephaestus NC-2004, and publisher of a 40-page Trekkie newsletter; or Jerry Murphy, a Sugar Grove, Illinois, business manager and father of two, who is commander...
...comparing Susan Smith's macabre efforts to escape from her life of "awful banality" to actions by women of lower socio-economic means to "join the public realm," Lezama strips Smith of any personal accountability in her children's deaths...
...Bush that you need as much spark as heft if you hope to win." Cheney makes Baker look charismatic, and this ex-everything is a world-class fund raiser. Both Cheney and Baker will share a slogan -- "Bring Back the Grownups" -- but since their best credentials are outside the realm of domestic politics, they might not triumph unless a diplomatic or military crisis causes the party to value their foreign policy experience more highly. "Maybe the Islamic fundamentalists could take over the Middle East oil fields," jokes a Cheney friend, "or Russia's elections could be pushed up before...