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...Crimson defense stiffened after allowingscores on two of Brown's first three possessions.The Bears' offensive star, wide receiver SeanMorey, had six catches for 92 yards in the firsthalf but only three for 37 in the second. Harvarddid not let its run defense slip in the process,allowing only 32 rushing yards on 13 attempts inthe second half...
...that spring and I didn't go to any classes. I read the five books and sure enough, with a great sigh of relief I saw that the questions were all related to my reading. I wrote, I thought, a credible exam. I put a return-address slip in the blue book to see how well I had done. It came back with an E. I sailed up to see Dr. Whittlesly. I knocked on his door. I said who I was and that I'd come to see about the exam. Surely there had been a mistake...
Psst! Want to make an easy 200 bucks? If you are a university professor specializing in business, math or computer science and are about to present your research paper at an academic conference, MICROSOFT will slip you a check for $200 to cover "travel costs." All you have to do is mention how Microsoft programs helped you in your work. The offer is part of a promotional program called "The Academic Cooperative," which maintains its own website on the Internet academicoop.isu.edu/Colleges/FacultySpeakers Program.html). The website, which runs on the University of Idaho's server, makes no overt mention of Microsoft...
...President had better hope the rosy numbers bear out. His once sky-high approval ratings are starting to slip, and the tobacco legislation, which Clinton is counting on to pay for a host of goodies in his 1999 budget, is still getting picked apart in the Senate. With Monica to the left of him and Chinese missiles to the right, the economy -- and its power to "save Social Security first" -- may be all that Clinton has left...
Until the final breakdown Saturday afternoon, it looked for a couple of days last week as if Bill Gates just might have found a way to slip out of this one relatively unscathed. Early Thursday morning, with only hours left before the press conference at which Attorney General Janet Reno and her antitrust chief Joel Klein were to announce one of the largest and most important antitrust cases in American history, Gates demonstrated the cold-blooded brinkmanship for which he is famous: with no time left on the clock, he suddenly made nice. O.K., he told Klein: Let's talk...