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This film will be one that defines my, and I know, many other people's, college life. Many a night have I hung out watching this soon-to-be cult classic in some altered state and laughed till my sides hurt. I mean, as the movie poster suggests, "See it with...
...enroll Monday after winning a sex-discrimination suit that had bounced up to the Supreme Court. But this afternoon a three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the school a delay until December, when the case goes back to the drawing board. Till then, Faulkner is stuck in the Citadel's day-student program. The silver lining: no court-ordered buzz cut for Faulkner, at least not this semester...
...Ways and Means Committee, was a double whammy. In a short time he has come to symbolize both Congress's lingering tawdriness and its desperate need for a dealmaker to keep the place functioning. "Most people think members of Congress -- all members of | Congress -- have their hands in the till," worries Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "This simply confirms it for them...
...unusually stubborn men from Texas -- one rich, the other never quite sure of having gas money or whether his truck's head gasket will last till the next interstate exit -- are locked in a battle over the last of California's privately owned ancient redwoods. Doug Thron, 24, a nature photographer, became an environmentalist after he saw the wild land in Richardson, Texas, he had hiked as a boy paved with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber...
...episodes aren't eager to discuss them. But some acknowledge that the prospect of watching lifelong dreams shatter as the military shrinks can make them lash out in rage and frustration. "It stresses you out, but you can't hit the officers," an Army man says. "So you wait till you get home and take it out on her and the kids." Another soldier will only say of his wife that "we abused each other." In fact, the Army survey suggests that spousal abuse usually involves violence by both partners. But women, it notes, are far more likely than...