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...mother, like almost every other mother alive today, still remembers exactly where she was when she heard. She was in her tenth grade math class on Nov. 22, 1963 when a voice over the loud-speaker announced that President John F. Kennedy '40 had been assassinated. Her teacher, who at the beginning of the term had joked that the class would be spared homework "only if the President were shot," assigned homework nonetheless...
Under the current system, students are notified at the beginning of their tenth year that they will be asked to leave the college. Students can apply for a waiver if they demonstrate satisfactory progress, but the notifying letter does not mention the waiver option...
...individually the Ivy League continues to hold its own among the elites of the country. Brown's super-sophomore Vita Redding continues to lead the nation in scoring, while the Bears' tandem of Redding and junior Liz Turner ranks second nationally as a group (41.7 ppg--only a tenth of a point behind North Carolina's Jones/Reid combination...
...Operation Smile International and Sinn Fein, didn't know the source of the donations. "I simply decided I had enough money," Feeney (who doesn't own a car or a house) told the New York Times. Don't worry, he's not broke. He kept $5 million--about one-tenth of 1% of what he gave away...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: For the tenth day in a row, students marched through the streets of Belgrade, protesting the nullification of municipal elections where the opposition party Zajedno won a majority in dozens of towns and cities. More than 50,000 students marched to Belgrade's parliament building, donning gas masks before symbolically spraying the building with detergent and daubing it with slogans like "Red Bandits, Thieves, We Are the Winners." In response to the demonstrations, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has shut down one independent radio station and jammed another that was providing favorable coverage of the anti-government protests...