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...Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush, he seems to have no problems convincing the masses (however unintentionally) that he's no member of the intelligentsia. The New Yorker recently printed a transcript from Bush's years at Yale which revealed him to be a rather mediocre student. He had highs of 88 in philosophy and anthropology, a low of 69 in astronomy, with a GPA somewhere in the mid-C range...
Junior forward Ray Mercedes (14.2 ppg, 5.5 rpg) will lead the Cornell attack. The runner-up to Harvard's Dan Clemente for Ivy Rookie of the Year in 1997-98, Mercedes can score from inside and outside (.308 three-point percentage...
Bush, regarded as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has several Harvard professors on his staff whose diverse government connections include time spent as part of the Reagan administration...
James H. Hatfield has probably heard the adage, "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." He aimed at G.O.P. presidential front runner GEORGE W. BUSH, but got his own facade shattered. In a new book, Fortunate Son, Hatfield claims Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972 but his father, former President George Bush, orchestrated a cover-up. The Bushes adamantly denied the accusation. Hatfield, it now seems, was doing some covering up of his own. St. Martin's Press recalled the book when a newspaper report revealed that the author is on parole after being convicted...
...even better news is that cable-modem providers like Road Runner (partly owned by Time Warner, parent company of this magazine) and Excite@Home are working on bigger and better firewalls to help stop snooping. Since they're twice as fast as DSL phone lines, cable modems are worth the risk. They will never be hackproof, but they should be a lot safer by the time my next birthday rolls around. This year, I'll have to settle for socks again...