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Paglia, who sprang to national prominence after the 1990 publication of her book Sexual Personae, spoke on academic reform for nearly two hours before an capacity audience of about...
Yale's four-game losing skid came to a close when Woodroofe tallied all three of her team's goal against Princeton. Woodroofe thus sprang into the league lead for points scored in Ivy games. Her six points tioe her with Cornell's Amy Deuslng and Heather Ott for the top spot...
...mighty river. Over the past seven decades, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars constructing an elaborate flood-control network, including 7,000 miles of levees, along the Mississippi and the rivers that feed it. The system was intended to protect the communities that sprang up on the river's edge, and most of the time it has. But many environmentalists believe that, over the years, the corps's attempts to control the Mississippi have backfired. Left to its own devices, a flooding river spreads horizontally, filling its natural floodplain and enriching it with fertile, alluvial...
Founded by Randall Terry in 1987, Operation Rescue sprang to prominence with a 46-day clinic blockade in 1991 that nearly paralyzed Wichita, Kansas. This year the organization has intensified its harder-edged tactics aimed at clinic employees: wanted posters of doctors, picket lines around their homes, and harassment of their children and neighbors. After one such target, physician David Gunn, was shot to death in March by a man connected with an unrelated but similar organization, "the pro-life movement was on the ropes a little bit," admits Operation Rescue's national spokesman, Patrick Mahoney. Nonetheless, Rescue continued...
Clinton's wavering on appointments also signifies a lack or organization. Why, after such problems sprang from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Judge Kimba Wood for Attorney General, didn't the Clinton team scrutinize its next choices more? If the press could find Stephen Breyer's "Zoe Baird Problem" and Lani Guinier's inflammatory writings within a week of the release of their names, why couldn't Clinton & Co.? The public's disillusionment with the president could come from his snatch-and-grab appointments as much as his programs...