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When the President-elect announced that he and his wife had, after much discussion, finally selected Sidwell, some educators were quick to criticize the move as a conspicuous slight to the public education system Bill Clinton has so avidly championed and committed himself to improving. Defending the choice, Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos stressed that the Clintons "didn't reject public schools," but had made a personal, parental decision...
...horn was no more a stunt than all his roguish jokiness though. The music flowed from a kind of high spirit, a purposeful passion that the horn symbolized and the silliness deflected. There was nothing slight or offhand about the way he played, or how he lived. Born in South Carolina in 1917, he began to teach himself trombone and trumpet two years after his father -- a bricklayer by trade and a weekend bandleader by calling -- had passed on; before he left his teens he was playing professionally with the Frankie Fairfax band and had got himself his nickname...
...slight rise in eating disorders at Harvard may be explained by the overwhelming diet mentality of our time, Heatherton says...
...student, Hollis resident John A. Greene '96, denies ripping down any posters. He admits to kicking a few, but says he says he did not single out BGLSA posters, and did not intend to slight the organization...
...When I ran," recalls two-time Senate candidate and former Missouri Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods, "there was a 10% automatic disadvantage for a woman. This year there may have even been a slight benefit" -- a trend that will not easily be reversed. (See related story in main section...