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Like a rare butterfly that's simply too precious and beautiful to live more than but a brief span, the yearlong engagement between bodacious V.I.P. actress Pamela Anderson and rock-rapper Kid Rock is dead. Anderson has been spotted gadding about without her engagement ring, and she is quoted in the current issue of PEOPLE as saying, "The word that best describes me now is 'free.'" What happened? Did Anderson grow jealous of Rock's sumptuous furs? Did she finally wake up one day and realize that she was way, way better looking than he was? Or did she simply...
...denied permission to begin new "scientific" whaling operations - in which 300 more whales would be taken - because the IWC believed it would be thinly disguised hunting. Iceland recently announced an intention to return to commercial whaling by 2006 - following a "scientific" kill of 500 whales over a two-year span. The commission slapped down the idea after its scientific committee found the proposal "deficient in almost every respect." But the environmentalists, too, had difficulty in some areas. Proposals for two new whale sanctuaries, in the South Atlantic and the South Pacific, were shot down again. Such moves require the support...
...Crimson had not defeated Columbia since 1978. And over the past 16 years, Harvard’s record in the Ivy League has been an embarrassment. The Crimson is 1-63 during that span against current Ivy teams, while Columbia has won 11 Ivy titles during that same time...
...Over a span of two hours, these grand dames of the academy discussed many structural and cultural barriers facing women in higher education today, including the pitfalls of the tenure system, the narrow range of personality types accepted in female leaders, the importance of mentoring and the burden of balancing work and family...