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Stewart and Cohen kept their word. Council accomplishments under their rule included frozen yogurt in Annenberg and fly-by lunches in Loker commons. Student services were firmly placed in the spotlight, and Free Burma bills were essentially a thing of the past...
...oddly, Gore's apparent inevitability is casting an early spotlight on his vulnerabilities--and helping fast-forward the entire election cycle. Some of Gore's problems come with his job, which has a history of diminishing the men who hold it, but the most glaring are of his own making--beginning with the assumption that he could set the game's pace, seizing his moment to step from the mottled shadow of Bill Clinton and lay out his vision for the country. Gore's moment is now. Miss it, nervous Democratic veterans say, and he could squander his chance...
...while this electronic brain, as headline writers called it, took the spotlight, ENIAC had a lot of unsung rivals, many of them shrouded in wartime secrecy. At Bletchley Park, Alan Turing built a succession of vacuum-tube machines called Colossus that made mincemeat of Hitler's Enigma codes. At Harvard, large, clattering electromechanical computers in IBM's Mark series also did wartime calculations. Even the Germans made a stab at computing with Konrad Zuse's Z electromechanical computers, the last of which was the first general-purpose computer controlled by a program...
...focus of the Kevorkian case will now shift to the sentencing phase and place the spotlight on Judge Jessica Cooper. "She's been meticulously responsible in following the law and explicitly careful to explain everything to Kevorkian, since he chose to represent himself," says Grace. Now, however, it is Cooper who will make the final decision of this difficult case. How harsh should she be on the 70-year-old zealot? Says Grace: "The fact that she let Kevorkian go free pending the sentencing may be an indication that she thinks he's something less than a cold-blooded murderer...
Boxing must be grateful that college basketball's broken nose has stolen the spotlight from its own umpteenth "black eye." These allegations come on the heels of a ruling by a United States District Judge striking down as racially biased the NCAA'S Proposition 48, which requires certain minimum test scores (qualified by grade point average) in order for freshmen to be eligible for college athletics...