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According to CFD estimates, Harvard College has spent several hundred thousand dollars over the past several years to improve safety systems in the residence buildings alone...
Suddenly, with the victory of John McCain last week, spin is out and candor is in. In the course of 114 town meetings in New Hampshire, McCain was asked a thousand questions and dodged none. The Senator released every medical record, herpetic lesions and all. The breakup of his first marriage? McCain takes the blame. As to what the biggest mistake of his life was, McCain reminded voters of the Keating Five scandal. George W. Bush blithely cited his trade of Sammy Sosa. McCain's book is a signed confession of his sins--being a spoiled brat at Episcopal High...
...save it. Acting president Vladimir Putin announced Sunday that Russian forces were in full control of the capital, and had managed to find an administrative building still standing amid the rubble on which to hoist the Russian flag. But with the bulk of the city's two to three thousand Chechen defenders having broken through Russian lines - at a considerable cost in casualties - and made it to the rebel strongholds in the mountains to the south, the war's focus has simply shifted elsewhere...
...Clinton Administration doesn't want the U.S. to become the world's policeman. But it wouldn't mind having world cops. Floating around the White House is a proposal by Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT that would have the U.N. set up a standby force of several thousand policemen, who would rush into war-torn areas to keep law and order. Cops are scarce in countries recovering from civil war, but military units deployed as peacekeepers balk at doing police work. So the U.N. has to start from scratch each time, enlisting nations to contribute policemen. "Getting enough of them...
...would come out," says Douglas Clegg, a New York City horror writer with nine published novels under his belt and two more in the hands of Dorchester Publishing. So Clegg got Dorchester to sponsor an e-mail serialization of his latest work, Naomi, a "haunted love story." Four thousand people signed up to receive free weekly chapters last summer. Clegg plans another e-mail serial in June. The money Dorchester kicked into the project went to designing a Doug Clegg website and some banner ads, so e-Naomi was not a moneymaker for the author. The real payoff, Clegg says...