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...million now, and to putting more U.S.-made parts into those cars-a move that just happens to make business sense because American parts are often much cheaper than their Japanese counterparts. There could also be a significant increase in sales of U.S. parts in the Japanese repair market if the Japanese government follows through on its agreement to change regulations that now have the effect of making drivers get their cars fixed in designated garages with mostly Japanese-made spare parts...
Hurlbut residents--who call their dorm "theButt" and themselves Hurl-beu-tians--live in"pods;" huge circular common rooms with singlesbranching off of them, or "suites," four rooms andbathroom adjoining a small hallway. Most ofHurlbut's oddly shaped rooms are comfortable andin good repair...
Faculty citizenship has never been perfect, butadministrators and even a few honest professorsacknowledge that the connections between facultyand the people who they allegedly teach havefrayed perhaps beyond repair...
...Dole proved last week. With his myopic focus on New Hampshire's gun-loving Republican voters (the primary's only nine months away), Dole had originally brushed aside the N.R.A. letter. They need "a little image-repair job," he said. So Dole's embrace of the N.R.A.'s "apology" as "the right thing" to have done is hardly surprising. "We're where the N.R.A. itself is right now," concedes a Dole adviser. "The sooner this mess is off the radar screen, the sooner they can go back to raising money and we can get on with running for President...
...Grisham is sullying the sacred ground where Faulkner once trod: "In a long line of Mississippi writers, Grisham is a singular aberration and paradox, the worst and the richest, the least distinguished and the most popular." The article outraged most locals, who point out that Grisham helped pay to repair the Faulkner estate and rescued a new literary periodical, the Oxford American. Says novelist Barry Hannah, who has a formidable reputation but not Grisham's millions: "I guess in America if a guy gets some fame and celebrity, he can't seem to do anything right...