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...unusually busy summer for the Harvard athletic department. After the retirement of many long-time Harvard faithfuls this past spring, a committee consisting of both academic and athletic representation as well as outgoing captains was immediately faced with a slew of coaching vacancies...
...find out where they stand. The next showdown is likely to involve the 2,000 pilots of the Independent Pilots Association who fly UPS aircraft. I.P.A. president Robert Miller, echoing the Teamsters, declares that his pilots are no longer prepared to accept salaries below the industry average. Elsewhere, a slew of collective-bargaining confrontations is upcoming, but none with the public impact of UPS. President Clinton averted a potential strike by Amtrak workers last week. The United Food and Commercial Workers, representing 44,000 supermarket workers in Northern California, has a contract expiring in February. "UPS was important," says David...
...Times--a song about a guy who has a crush on a cute neighbor he doesn't know--as an example of how teenage girls in the 1960s and '70s were taught to be blank images rather than real people. Never mind that the era gave rise to a slew of empowering female singer-songwriters; in Wolf's distorted algebra Tony Orlando cancels out the cultural weight of, say, Joni Mitchell...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fund-raising attack dog Fred Thompson wants immunity for 19 witnesses who may be able to connect Al Gore to a slew of illegal and improper donations. But Republicans need two more votes to achieve a two-thirds majority on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that must approve the immunity, and Senate Democrats say they are not ready to go along. "We're not getting any kind of cooperation on the things that we hold to be very important," said Tom Daschle. "We just think it's premature." Democrats may block Thompson's efforts to begin hearings next...
...horse had been overlooked for a number of reasons. He was literally an ugly yearling, hairless because of mange. His breeding wasn't very special. But lurking in his pedigree was his dam's sire, Poker, who was also the maternal grandfather of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew...