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Catamounts goalie Mike Millham stands 6'3" tall, but the ECAC's second-rated netminder isn't accustomed to letting games slip through his legs...
Harvard refused to let that lead slip away...
...dispatched troops to patrol borders once sealed by barbed-wire fences and watchtowers. | Germany is reviewing security arrangements along the Polish frontier, while promising to speed up visa issuance for legitimate travelers. "The worry for Western Europe is not just that the reforms will fail and the region will slip into anarchy and chaos," says Karsten Voigt of Germany's Social Democratic Party. "Even if reforms succeed, it will mean thousands of factories closed down and millions out of work." The prospect is that a stream of political escapees will turn into a flood of economic refugees...
...controversial Helms ad showed a white hand crumpling a rejection slip. "You needed that job, and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair?" That is, at the very least, a crude description of how affirmative action works. But simple mathematics dictates that every job gained by a black or a woman through such efforts is a job lost by a white or a man. Whether that is "fair" depends on knowing the unknowable: whether, without all past and present discrimination, a black...
...been called the Aretha Franklin of rap for her creative fusing of reggae, soul and jazz. A professional rapper for five years, she sees herself as a role model for young people, and she's as committed to raising consciousness as she is to having fun. "I try to slip in a few lines about something serious. But I'm not a preacher," says Latifah, a.k.a. Dana Owens. As she chants in her hit song Latifah's Law, "BMWs and gold rope chains don't impress me, won't get you closer to the point you could undress...