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After a student cleaned my suite’s bathroom early in the semester, we expected him to return a week later. Yet, he did not return. Instead, week after week, we stared at the yellow “dorm crew was here” slip on our mirror hoping that someone from dorm crew would soon appear to rescue our bathroom from its ever-so-ungracious disintegration into pure filth. Finally, after over a month without service, one roommate called the dorm crew office, and the next day a student came to clean. His service restored our bathroom?...
...South Korea's Dec. 19 presidential election draws near, Lee Hoi Chang is doing what most candidates do when they slip behind in the polls: he's changing his message. During a televised question-and-answer session with college students last week, the hawkish conservative told the audience he is "ready to meet" with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in the spirit of reconciliation and cooperation. That's an unexpected disclosure from a politician who has been advocating that his countrymen take a tough stand against the nuclear ambitions of their northern neighbor. Lee isn't going soft...
...Daschle, John Kerry, Dick Gephardt, John Edwards and Howard Dean), Gore is favored by a whopping 53% of Democrats. (No one else gets more than 10%.) If Hillary Rodham Clinton's name is included, it becomes a contest, though Gore would outpoint her 36% to 26%. Barring some slip in the early 2004 tests in New Hampshire or Iowa, Gore is likely to prevail in a front-loaded primary system that gives the candidate with the greatest name recognition a big advantage...
...Though Bush had time to meet with the Czech prime minister, he could not find room in his schedule to slip in a meeting with the leader of the largest European nation. At a private dinner Wednesday night, the two men could not have been sat farther apart. Bush who is expert at working a room, barely wandered into Schroeder's corner. The next day Bush merely said their interaction had been "cordial," one of the signature diplomatic characterizations used to keep from causing overt offense, but little more...
...sure none of you would walk into a Blockbuster and furtively slip a DVD into your jacket. That’s a Winona Ryder thing,” he said. “But how many of you have been on Kazaa or Morpheus...