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...terms of a merit award, it usually takes a large sum to turn a student's head," he said

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell to Offer Merit-Based Aid | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

When the G.O.P. stormed the House in 1994, 10-term veteran Goodling was rewarded with the chair of the Educational Opportunities Committee. From there he proposed lump-sum grants for states to administer their own school programs and opposed "opportunity-to-learn" standards in President Clinton's Goals 2000: Educate America Act. He hopes his new prominence in Congress will mean votes for him at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: PENNSYLVANIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Bill Gates' full name is apparently William Gates III. And as we all know, he goes by Bill. According to the e-mail, if you convert the letters in "Bill Gates III" to their ASCII values and sum them, they equal 666, the biblical mark of the devil. (For those computer illiterates out there, ASCII codes are an international standard which assigns a number from 1-256 to each of the symbols on a standard keyboard...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: HAIL GATES, DARK LORD | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

While this may be passed off as a coincidence, the ASCII codes of "MS-DOS 6.31" and "WINDOW95" also sum...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: HAIL GATES, DARK LORD | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

...difficult to know exactly what difference your letter is making," he says. "It's quite obvious that the sum total of Amnesty letters in all these cases is making an impact on world human rights...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Students Question Services' Impact | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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