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California Democrat Zoe Lofgren characterizes Graham?s bill as an attempt "to alter the Constitution through statute." Thursday, Lofgren, who also sponsored an unsuccessful alternative to Graham?s 1999 bill, presented a rider that would have enhanced penalties for anyone who attacks a pregnant woman (whether the pregnancy was known to the attacker or not), but would have classified such an act as a single-victim crime. Voted down in 1999, Lofgren?s alternative was defeated Thursday as well...
Adding former Bull Horace Grant and Isaiah Rider to the team, Lakers fans were optimistic for another smooth run to the NBA Finals. Jackson had successfully tamed Dennis Rodman, transforming the former Detroit bad-boy into another cog in his well-oiled triangle offense that yielded six championships to the Bulls in the 1990s. Surely, he could handle Rider and tap the tremendous talent beneath his troubled past...
Unfortunately, the Zen master overestimated his abilities. Rodman, for all of his foibles and transgressions off the court, was a fierce competitor with an intense desire to win. But Rider is a spoiled wild child, unwilling to give up his ways for the good of the team. Needless to say, this distraction-along with the ongoing Shaq-Kobe feud-has proved costly, as the Lakers still seem to be searching for that chemistry of a year...
...caller from the Harvard Lampoon reported finding numerous items of property missing from the building. Items included a chair stolen from The Harvard Crimson the previous week, a naked picture of Henry A. Kissinger '50, jester costumes, a large bronze statue of Pegasus with a nude rider and numerous parodies. Officers failed to locate the items, any humor, or the Lampoon's dignity...
However, as any avid shuttle bus rider is aware, drivers neglect this responsibility with startling frequency. Sometimes motivated by sympathy for students rushing to get to class on time, other times motivated by frustration with students unwilling to comply with polite requests to step off, drivers allow buses to fill beyond their capacity, oftentimes ceasing to record the number of students who end up squeezing their way on so as not to leave an official record of the illegal overcrowding...