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...argument on the council's public e-mail forum, UC-General, Burton initially refused to budge on the dates of the election. A slew of council members assailed his decision, saying that his timetable left too little time to publicize the elections...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Overrides Burton, Sets New Special Election Date | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

Alan C. Kors, who co-authored The Shadow University, a book exploring students' rights at universities, says that in light of a recent slew of court decisions that struck down the explicit speech codes at schools like Stanford and the University of Wisconsin, restrictions on expression have simply "gone underground...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz and Alixandra E. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Locus of Conduct: Why Brown Speaks Carefully and Why Harvard Speaks Freely | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

After Leaving Las Vegas, however, Shue's career suffered a slew of commercial and critical disappointments including The Trigger Effect, Palmetto, Cousin Bette and Molly...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shue Returns To Complete Degree | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

Philbin, meanwhile, pretty much just shows up and gets paid. Last Saturday a corporate jet picked him up in Miami, where he had returned from a cruise, and flew him to New York City hours before taping because, long after the game shows are replaced by a slew of westerns, Philbin will still be a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Going Millionaire Crazy! | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...There have been a slew of threat reports over the past few weeks, mainly Bin Laden-related," an official told the Los Angeles Times. "And then one emerged in the past couple of days that seemed much more credible and specific than all the others." Global cautions to the millions of Americans spread around the globe are issued each time the U.S. does anything that may be deemed offensive to terrorists anywhere, which makes them fairly commonplace: Sunday's was the fifth since October. But senior officials went out of their way to warn the media not to treat this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bin Laden Plotting a Y2K Catastrophe? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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