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Worried about the breakneck pace of university tuition inflation? TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter reports that Wednesday, Michigan State University will become the first major U.S. educational institution to promise at least four straight years of tuition increases no faster than the rate of inflation -- a potential slap at private and state universities whch have complained that they'd go belly-up if they took such a step. "It's going to be a shot across the fiscal management bow of every other university in the country," says McWhirter, who spoke to sources close to the school's board...
...delivered a stinging slap in the face today to the chipmaker that provides the brains behind many of its PCs: Intel. Big Blue announced that it will stop shipping personal computers using the Pentium chip because its problems are more significant than previously stated. Intel discovered a problem last summer in its chip but says the probability is so slim -- once every 27,000 years -- that it unlikely to cause problem. "We believe no one should have to wonder about the integrity of data calculated on IBM PCs," G. Richard Thoman, an IBM senior vice president, said in a statement...
...into the numbing cold and slap your cheeks...
...Creating a bunch of rules which you slap on departments isn't very effective," Skocpol says. "It creates a bad relationship...
...nearly a year, the Rodriguez brothers have been trying to cut a deal with the Colombian government in exchange for slap-on-the-wrist punishment. For just as long, impatient drug fighters in Washington have been pressing Bogota to make the narcobosses pay a stiff penalty for their crimes. When Ernesto Samper Pizano was elected President nearly five months ago, the Clinton Administration thought it had assurances that the Rodriguez brothers would not get the deal they wanted...