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Having spent the better part of the current congressional session throwing knock-down punches at each other over impeachment, guns, Hollywood and the budget, House members on Tuesday turned to the subject of boxing. A House commerce subcommittee heard testimony from boxing promoter Tony Holden in support of legislation pinning down his peers to a set of national standards. The bill, which seeks to even the matchup between wheeling-and-dealing promoters and their often young and inexperienced charges would, among other things, require promoters to reveal more financial information (including their take from boxers? purses) and impose...
...predicts an actual decline in the rate of the 30-year Treasury bond to around 5.75% by year's end and possibly to 5.5% sometime in 2000. Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Management, is generally the most pessimistic of the board members, but on this subject he goes Battipaglia one better. His prediction: "A year from now [the 30-year Treasury rate] will be in the area...
...violent pass was not enough, where bodies could be found with 150 bullets in them. The cleansing of rich, urban centers like Pec was intended to rid the province permanently of large numbers of Kosovars and to destroy the Albanian intellectual and political culture. But Pec was also subject to a special fury. Going far beyond the brutal demands of military tactics or ethnic cleansing. Serbian forces swept through three times, wreaking destruction and expelling Albanians, including a final useless spasm of fury two weeks ago that razed most of the city and surrounding villages when Milosevic was about...
...chill has settled over Hollywood on the subject of violence. Washington's attacks hit a fever pitch last week, as Republican Congressman Henry Hyde blasted "toxically poisoning" entertainment and tried but failed to get an amendment passed making it a crime to expose children to violent movies. Hollywood lobbyists continue to attack such efforts as a violation of the industry's First Amendment rights. Nevertheless, the Columbine High School shootings and the national kids-and-violence conversation it set off have left Hollywood in an unusually reflective mood...
...extracurriculars, look hard for classes you'll really like and do well in them during your first year at Harvard. But Harvard students are good listeners, so I won't bore you again with your own miraculous academic opportunity. I'll spend my soapbox time on a more important subject. You may not know it, but your world is about to become three-dimensional, and you better be ready...