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...could scrap the entire [system] and I would be fine with it," says Ernesto J. Diaz...

Author: By Paul K. Nitze, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Year Advising Often Hit or MIss | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...that meeting, Smith presented a proposal for sweeping changes to the constitution that would scrap the three current council committees and create four new ones...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Council's New Tune: You Say You'll Change the Constitution... | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...that carried them across Canada on their 1939 royal tour that they granted the title Royal to a group of Hudson locomotives. One of these, Locomotive 2860, traveled proudly through British Columbia for 16 years before it was forced off the tracks by diesel engines. Rescued from the Winnipeg scrap yards by the government of British Columbia, 2860 was refurbished in 1974 and is now the only steam engine in regular mainline service in North America. Tom Savio, a former stationmaster and now a rail-travel consultant, says the black-and-silver locomotive, which "blends Canadian robustness and English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: 12 Terrific Train Trips | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...tough Justice Department veteran who prosecuted the Los Angeles cops who beat Rodney King--to examine two of Pepper's more checkable allegations: former Memphis bar owner Loyd Jowers' claim that he set up the shooting and ex-FBI agent Donald Wilson's claim that he found a scrap of paper in Ray's getaway car with the phone number of a Dallas nightclub once owned by Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Have a Scheme | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...build the original. One reason: today's shipbuilders don't keep the sweatshop hours common among the workers on the original Amistad. Another reason is that the first Amistad, like many boats of the era, was intended to sail for no more than 10 years before being scuttled for scrap. "Our new ship is built to last decades," says Snediker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: The Amistad Sails Again | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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