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Deacon attributed the increase to the recent policy change. He said Harvard's change in particular was important "because people feel the need to apply early since [Harvard] takes so many students early. There's no question there has been an influence...
Wilson spoke of growing economic disparity and racial tensions in recent years, pointing to Rodney King and other incidents of racial conflict...
There were many issues on which Ashcroft could have picked to challenge White, but his choice of the death penalty was especially astute given the state of Missouri politics. Gov. Carnahan is no softie on crime; his administration presided over more executions than any in recent memory. Yet in January, at the personal request of Pope John Paul II, Carnahan agreed to commute to life in prison the sentence of murderer Darrell Mease, whose execution was to be during the Pope's visit to St. Louis...
Also vanishing are the shock-value headlines that the old Enquirer once made infamous. Compared with "KILLS PAL AND EATS PIECES OF HIS FLESH," recent efforts like "DEMI TO WED!" seem a little pallid. And when a Star staffer member was fired recently for getting into a fracas with the L.A. police while pursuing a story, tabloid veterans shuddered. Not so long ago, the reporter might have been given a bonus...
...hundred thousand dollars to spare) to vacation in outer space. For more than a year, the American firm Space Voyages has been taking reservations for sub-orbital shuttle rides - price tag, $98,000 - and expects to launch in 2002. Further, NASA's top brass has urged Washington in recent years to allow civilian forays into outer space, including private rides on the space shuttle. Boeing, the primary developer of the International Space Station, is also leading the consortium to build the hotel, and would not rule out that it could be used to house vacationing civilians. It suddenly appears that...