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MIAMI--Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning will miss at least two more games after being diagnosed yesterday with a slight fracture of his right eye socket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mourning Out For Two More | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...been in place for three years in Cleveland, says it's a very mixed schoolbag: "There's not a lot of evidence yet to show that it has a positive effect on schools," he says. In Cleveland, the test scores of students who used the vouchers show a slight improvement in some subjects and a decline in others. Classes are smaller than in public schools, which is considered good, but teachers are generally less qualified. But the biggest fear is that vouchers could balkanize cities and states. "Public schools used to be the great melting pot," Cohen notes, "and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Votes for School Vouchers. Who's Next? | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...hope to just keep the BGLTSA in the forefront of gay life at Harvard and continue to have exciting social events with events of a slight political persuasion," Hill said...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Elects Next Year's Officers | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...Graduate School of Education student, is indirectly responsible, it seems, for our most recent constitutional crisis. He was described in Monica Lewinsky's book, "Monica's Story," as having dubbed Lewinsky "Big Mac" while at John Thomas Dye Elementary school in Bel Air, Calif. According to the text, the slight "was made all the more painful, because at the time she was harboring a schoolgirl crush on him." It became a "canker in her psyche." FM caught up with Spalding last week...

Author: By S. R. Hornblower, | Title: MONICA'S HARVARD NEMESIS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...last weekend's dual meet with the Bulldogs, the most important meet of the season to date, Ciollo did not disappoint. Harvard entered as a slight underdog based on early-season performances but sent the Elis back to New Haven as losers...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: The Running Man | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

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