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...group will also arrange sit-down meetings in neutral settings to mediate conflicts between students...
...BUFFY CAFRITZ'S PRE-INAUGURAL SUPPER A tradition since 1980 for Cafritz, one of Washington's reigning socialites. Co-hosts are Phyllis George and Friend-o'-Dubya Nancy Brinker. Perhaps the hottest event--an intimate sit-down dinner where the press isn't welcome. At Buffy's 1993 soiree, Jack Nicholson stayed until 4 a.m. Westin Fairfax Hotel...
...markets have already discounted it. They're happy about it. Anything less would have be met with disappointment." A half-percent increase also raises the hope that this hike will actually work, slowing the economy enough to remove the need for another increase at the Fed's June 28 sit-down. Which gives Wall Street six weeks to divine Greenspan's will all over again...
...meets me at sunset on the Namotu resort patio, decked with torches and stone idols, which lend our sit-down an odd Polynesian-honeymoon quality. "All the great stories are about our battle with loneliness," Hanks once said. "That's what I always end up being drawn toward." But, I suggest to him, it's more than that; it's a specific, homesick subgenre of loneliness. Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, Hanks' man-children in Forrest Gump and Big and even Toy Story--all share one universally sympathetic struggle: fate blows them off course...
...NCAA. "We don't want to compete with the NCAA," says University of Dayton freshman Brooks Hall. "We just want to work together to make things better." Should teamwork fail, don't be surprised if the jocks take their ball and go home, through protests or possibly even sit-down strikes. The NCAA, says one athletic-conference commissioner, "has ignored the needs of these kids for a long time. It shouldn't underestimate how dissatisfied they are with the system...