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Representatives Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Newton) and Thomas J. Campbell (R-Calif.) are preparing to introduce legislation that would repeal part of the "Solomon Amendment," which was passed last year and withholds federal funding from colleges and universities that bar military recruiters due to the military's discrimination against gays...
Being an attentive, empathetic parent is one thing; acting as a surrogate student is another. But when pressures mount, the line can get blurred. When Susan Solomon of San Francisco saw her son bogged down last year with a language-arts paper that would help his application to an elite high school, she took matters into her own hands: she did his math homework. He later copied his mother's calculations in his own handwriting. "He knew how to do it," Solomon shrugs. "It was just busywork." In the affluent Boston suburb of Sherborn, Mass., parents at the public Pine...
Like no other place on earth, Jerusalem is ground zero for the apocalypse. The city is the center of biblical prophecy and esoteric lore, with the Mount of Olives and the Temple Mount, the site of Solomon's Temple, as possible touchdown sites for the Lord. That is almost certainly why the followers of Colorado cult leader Monte Kim Miller were in Israel--and why Israel, increasingly wary as the millennium approaches, ordered the expulsion of as many of them as it could find last week. Miller, who had disappeared with more than 80 of his Denver-based Concerned Christians...
Revolution Books' customers buy items ranging from a mouse pad labeled "Mao's Pad" to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Books in Spanish, French, Farsi, Chinese, Arabic and other languages are available...
...special unit to deal with Millennium-related malfeasance. The psychiatric authorities too are expecting their own Y2K deluge -- they're anticipating a sharp increase in the "Jerusalem Syndrome," in which around 50 tourists a year are seized by the delusion that they're a reincarnated Biblical figure. The odd Solomon or Job won't cause much alarm, but there are also an awful lot of warriors in the Good Book...